Godan Quest

GQ046 – A Day That Will Live in Infamy…

Let’s get right to the point…

Did I make progress yesterday? Not even close.We were out the door (of the Ilima Hotel in Waikiki) by 8:00 a.m. Gone all day. Didn’t do a workout, ate after 8:30 – Hey… what can I say? I did do my knee rehab sequence before we left the hotel – so… yah… that’s something. But knees are getting worse. By the end of the day, my knees were awfully sore.

Honest assessment: so far, no progress whatsoever on this trip. At this rate, by the time this trip is over, I will be a Ni-Dan (2nd degree black belt). At this point, my only hope is that I will start getting younger (moving away from 60) while in Hawaii!

I suppose I should be feeling more remorse about this situation… but… Nope – I’m okay with it. I may be delusional, but I think I’ll have more opportunities to work out later in the trip…

So, yes. Shameful behavior so far (at least in regard to the Godan Quest); but that’s actually not the Day of Infamy I’m referring to…

We spent the day at Pearl Harbor. We met Nancy’s brother there (who lives here on Oahu) and spent the day with him.

Here is my video record of our time spent on the U.S.S. Arizona memorial…

It’s interesting that they now have the battleship U.S.S. Missouri permanently docked near the U.S.S. Arizona memorial. The Missouri is the ship on which the Japanese signed the unconditional surrender agreement with the allied forces to end World War II. So the two ships represent the beginning of the war for the U.S. and the end of the war. Quite a cool concept.

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Till next time, I seek peace (not unconditional surrender),

Sensei Bob Matthews

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