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Interesting things

(Some explanations from Wikipedia)

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- Arbutus Street, San Francisco - Arbutus Street is a fictitious street in the Richmond area of San Francisco. (To the best of the author's knowledge, this street does not exist in San Francisco. Any resemblance to a real street in San Francisco is unintentional.)

 

- Ghirardelli's - The Ghirardelli Chocolate Company is a United States division of Swiss confectioner Lindt & Sprüngli. The company was founded by and is named after Italian chocolatier Domenico Ghirardelli, who, after working in South America, moved to California. The Ghirardelli Chocolate Company was incorporated in 1852, and is the second-oldest chocolate company in the United States, after Baker's Chocolate.

 

- Komodo Dragon - The Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis), also known as the Komodo monitor, is a large species of lizard found in the Indonesian islands of Komodo, Rinca, Flores, Gili Motang, and Padar. A member of the monitor lizard family (Varanidae), it is the largest living species of lizard, growing to a maximum length of 3 metres (10 ft) in rare cases and weighing up to approximately 70 kilograms (150 lb).

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- Mojave Desert - The Mojave Desert (pronounced: mo-hah-vee) is a desert that occupies a significant portion of southeastern California and smaller parts of central California, southern Nevada,southwestern Utah and northwestern Arizona in the United States. 

 

- San Francisco - San Francisco /sæn frÉ™nˈsɪskoÊŠ/, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural center and a leading financial hub of the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California. San Francisco encompasses a land area of about 46.9 square miles (121 km2) on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, giving it a density of about 17,867 people per square mile (6,898 people per km2). It is the most densely settled large city (population greater than 200,000) in the state of California and the second-most densely populated major city in the United States after New York City.

 

- San Francisco Cable Cars - The San Francisco cable car system is the world's last manually-operated cable car system. An icon of San Francisco,California, the cable car system forms part of the intermodal urban transport network operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway. Of the twenty-three lines established between 1873 and 1890, three remain (one of which combines parts of two earlier lines): two routes from downtown near Union Square to Fisherman's Wharf, and a third route along California Street.  

 

- The Crescent - The Crescent is a fictitious circular street with a grass boulevard on the center. Modeled after a street in a historic neighborhood in Vancouver, BC. (To the best of the author's knowledge, this street does not exist in San Francisco. Any resemblance to a real street in San Francisco is unintentional.) 

 

- Zion - Zion National Park is located in the Southwestern United States, near Springdale, Utah. A prominent feature of the 229-square-mile (590 km2) park is Zion Canyon, which is 15 miles (24 km) long and up to half a mile (800 m) deep, cut through the reddish and tan-colored Navajo Sandstone by the North Fork of the Virgin River. 

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Visit the Website of San Francisco's Historic Market Street Railway.  Lots of information about the system and their restoration efforts.  There's a gift shop as well with cool street car merchandise.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Junya's Favorite Street Car, number 1007, painted in the red and white motif of the Philadelphia Red Arrow Line

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CR Fladmark author of The Gatekeeper’s Son and The Fallen Gatekeepers. Novel about half American, half Japanese kid. Lives in San Francisco and travels to Japan. Urban fantasy set in Japan and San Francisco. Contemporary fantasy.

Japanese girl in school uniform who can fight really well and uses weapons. Bodyguards and protection of VIPs.

martial arts novel for teens and adults. Has Japanese martial arts such as Aikido, kenjutsu and iaijutsu, jujutsu, bujutsu, ninjutsu and shurikenjutsu. Japanese swords, Katana.  

Novel with Strong female characters, strong girls, girls and women who do martial arts. Konoichi and female ninja. Ancient gods, land of the gods, Japanese gods of Shinto religion. Izumo shrine, Matsue Japan, Shimane prefecture.

Novel with kick ass girls, bad ass girl, Japanese kick ass girls, Japanese schoolgirls, schoolgirl uniform,

Shapeshifters, Evil Ones, Shintoism, ancient Japan, mixed race kids, Japanese-American.

Travel between dimensions, Shapeshifting,  Awesome Japan-focused modern day fantasy

​​Junya’s grandfather is a billionaire who keeps the secret to his success hidden in a safe. His mother is a martial artist who wields a fierce katana sword—and seems to read his mind. And a mysterious girl in a Japanese school uniform can knock him over—literally—with just a look.​What do they know that he doesn’t?​Junya’s life takes a dangerous turn on his sixteenth birthday, when someone sets out to destroy not only the family’s business empire—the one that he’s set to inherit—but Junya himself. He’s fighting for his life, and doesn’t know who to trust.​What has his family been keeping from him?​Junya’s journey takes him from the narrow streets of San Francisco to the top of the ancient Japanese Izumo Shinto shrine, and through hidden portals to places that have no names. And in a mystical world he’s never imagined, he finds his true destiny. see extras

Books

​​Book One of the The Gatekeeper's Son Series335 pages ISBN: 978-0-3-9937776-0-8​​​

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