What can I say after I've said "I'm sorry"? Might have been the heat. . . . Anyway, J.T. and Jane apologize for the typos, names and lines left out and whatever caused the gremlin attack on Rendezvous' last column. . . . The good news is that the temperature is falling here, there and everywhere, and there are saner days ahead.
To begin, John Delp is the gentleman globe-trotter who is the peripatetic founder and president of Tokyo-based Executive Travel and a fellow who is as familiar with the back roads of Asia as the back of his hand. The "lost line" in my last column would have let you know that the Hilton Otaru has good connections with the nearby Katsura Golf Course, Tomakomai, and the summer air in Hokkaido is great for golfing in Otaru. Cool.
Cooling it in San Francisco last week was the recently retired Philippine ambassador to Japan, Romeo Arguelles, and his wife, Azucena, whose friends call her Ennie. Mrs. (Dr.) Arguelles has a thriving medical practice in the Bay Area, and their three children live in the United States. Ennie has been commuting monthly between San Francisco and Tokyo, but now it may be the ambassador who will be doing the commuting between consulting commitments in Manila and the City by the Bay.