CrazyTigerFan

1) From Tennoji Station, take the JR Kansai Line to Nara Station (about 40 minutes, 510 yen). Pay attention near Oji Station... sometimes you have to change trains here!

2) At Nara Station, transfer to the JR Nara Line local train heading north to Inari Station (about 60 minutes, 680 yen). You could take the regional rapid train to Tofukuji and backtrack one station to Inari, but it doesn't really save time.

3) Walk from the station to Fushimi Inari Taisha and take the hike up to the temple through the thousands of torii gates. It's about 3 hours round trip, and it's free.

4) At Inari Station, head north on the JR Nara Line to Kyoto Station (5 minutes, 150 yen). Transfer to the subway Karasuma Line and head north to Kuramaguchi Station (11 minutes, 260 yen).

5) Walk west along Kurumaguchi Dori towards the Kinkaku Jinjya, the Golden Temple (about 40 minutes). Some of the views here are amazing, like being in a picture of Japan. There are places to eat along Nishioji Dori, right before you get to the temple. Or, pick up some food at the Lawson and backtrack on Kuramaguchi Dori and into the neighborhood and picnic under the cherry blossoms in Kamiya Park, with a view of one of the giant obon bonfire sites on the mountainside to the west. (Remeber to pick up all of your trash!)

6) Admission to the Golden Temple grounds is 500 yen. You can spend and hour or two here.

7) Walk back along Kuramaguchi Dori to Kuramaguchi Station and take the subway south to Kyoto Station. If you have time left, you can check out several different temples or shrines in the area. Sanjyusangendo Temple (with 1001 statues) is about a 20 minute walk to the east from the station and 600 yen admission. You could eat near here or back in Osaka.

8) From Kyoto Station, take the JR Osaka-Sanyo line to Osaka Station (about 28 minutes, 580 yen).

My cousin, his fiancee, and I bought season passes and used them a good bit. It was pretty fun for what it was, and the plan had always been to grow it slowly over several years. It was a drive to get there, but it was similar to Lake Forest Plaza mall and Toys R Us in the East a decade before that.

When the Greek group owned it before Six Flags, there were three coasters (Mega Zeph, Wild Maus, Caterpilar for small kids), the splash ride (the bridge part was too close to the splash down so you couldn't stand on it), the "inside" water gun ride, the air conditioned video show, the two drop towers, the big swing drop over the water, and the board walk games and lake water show.

Six Flags added the Joker coaster, a slow water log ride, some other small kid stuff, and some preliminary theme work and shade. There were supposedly plans for at least two more big coasters, more shading and themeing, and to rebuild the bridge on the splash ride further away from the splash down point.

Then Katrina happened.

It was much more obvious (and smoother) when he was going by Eli Drake in NWA. Covid screwed that up before it could get started.

It hit Kyushu, the SW-most of the big four islands.

That was a different smoke shop on Highland. There's half a dozen of them in the northgates area, it feels like.

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Douglas said Murphy’s is equally responsible for issues on the street.

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So he admits that an alcohol permit in that area can lead to problems for the neighborhood. Good. Permit denied.

Lost engines on the landing burn, too fast for a "soft" landing, wouldn't have been a good catch.

Off the top of my head within the past month, I don't think the15-year-old kid in Southdowns on June 26, Suhib Yousef, was black.

In addition to IR vs precipitation data, also consider that satellite imagery is from above while ground-based radar is from lower angles. They "see" things differently.

It's our time, it's our time down here.