Friends Games Food Culture Taiko Diving Entertainment Skiing Commerce
Steve Hatherley's 'four letters at random'
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/darknebula
http://www.great-murder-mystery-games.com
http://www.freeformgames.com/
Murder mystery party games with a difference!
Costumes
http://www.sutlers.co.uk/acatalog/index.html
Taiko: The art of Japanese Drumming. These links will explain better than I ever could.

Fushicho Daiko, Phoenix Arizona
and our teacher Esther Vandecar
Tiffany TamaribuchiA wonderful teacher of
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North American Taiko Conference
2007, Seattle, WA
2005, Los Angeles, CA
2003, Sacramento, CA
Akatsuki
Daiko, Reading, England!
who gave me a warm welcome when I visited
Wadaiko
Ichiro
This site is all in Japanese but is the first professional Taiko group we
ever saw and they are awesome.
Ichiro was director of the organization from
which Kodo sprang.

the most widely-known Taiko group in the
world
Taiko
Masala
This site is much too graphics heavy (slow),
but it is the place we bought our first drum!


The web resource for Taiko


We have no connection except that we have friends who
live in Portland
and therefore we may get to see these guys one day!
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We introduced two friends to Taiko and they are now
regulars at Emeryville classes
and we attended a great workshop there in March 2004 by Ryutaro Kaneko of
Kodo.

Our local dive shop where we certified for Open Water(2003), Navigation and
Peak Buoyancy(2005)
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St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands,
where we did our Advanced OW Cert at John & Kristen's
wedding, November 2003

Ustica, Sicily, where we certified for Underwater Naturalist, September 2005
http://www.sonoitavineyards.com
Sunrise Ski Park, Apache White Mountains
Portals
Whatever you do, DON'T travel by Alitalia if you can possibly avoid it