I am in Japan with a carload of friends. we are touring around. after some scenes, telling someone that, no, Mt. Fujiyama is not 6,000 feet high, it is 12,365 feel high (learned this on a tour bus on the way to the mountain in 1974, by saying 12 months, 365 days…). we are climbing the mountain. it is a mix of the Matterhorn at Disneyland, and the mountain has been sliced through by some kind of retaining wall. there are lots of volcanic rocks. there is a paved parking lot next to an outdoor cafe where a few Japanese men are sitting at tables. I start to photograph a triptych panorama of the scene, but the camera is either on time delay or the shutter is locked, I keep trying to reset the delay but it keeps coming on. the large seated Buddha is in the background, we begin walking towards it, somebody is talking about Michael Jordan. the alarm goes off.