Goodie is the sole proprietor of Goodie’s R&B Soul Bar in Fukuoka city. On any given day you can find him serving drinks and entertaining his guests while the smooth grooves of the likes of Marvin Gaye, Barry White, or the Temptations fill the room. The front door is located underground and is accessible via…
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Soul, Afros, and B-Style — A Peripatetic Chronicler Discovers Fukuoka Again
In September I purchased a ticket on the Kobee ferry to Fukuoka, Japan. It cost me about $70 round trip. These tickets aren’t readily available however. If you visit the site you will find that many of the cheap ticket options are unavailable. I was in luck because my trip matched the date on which…
Fukuoka: Stamp #4
When I picked up my new passport at the federal building in Westwood, I reveled in what the words ascribed across the accompanying pamphlet meant to me. It read something to the effect ‘a passport is a ticket to the world’. Those words are poignant and I have taken them to be my guiding philosophy…
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