The sea turtle conference was fine and all, but the real adventure started as Scott and I were promised a ride south to Kagoshima.

Yoshi (see his arms on my bag? Scott is peeking through way in the back) didn't realize what I meant when I said Scott and I had BIG bags. So he showed up in this little car with two other guys... not much room left for baggage... so we had a large bag to keep us company in the back seat for the two hour ride south to Kagoshima.