Sometimes things I haven’t thought about in decades will appear in my brain and it makes me laugh out loud. This is the volcano Sakurajima which is east of, but essentially within the city limits of Kagoshima in Japan.

This is still an active volcano. In my shot here, over two decades old, you can see the steam. My coworkers and I hiked up there. We got to the base via a cab.

We asked the cab driver what would ever happen if the volcano ever fully erupted again. He pondered it for a moment with his hand on his chin. And he waves his hand around with a wave and an absolute smile on his face and he gleefully says: “Oh, all this go away.”

We all lost our minds in laughter, as he did too. I laughed tonight = win