Greetings from Japan

[Jaustin612]

Hey guys,

I'm active duty military stationed in Okinawa Japan, a little island in the middle of nowhere.
As far as an intro for me, I've always been into cigars, ever since I was a little kid, I have good memories of exploring the local smoke shops walk in humidor, cant really explain it. I only recently really got into cigars, but its been a very quick and expensive path into a hobby, still not as much as rifle building, but definitely not cheap. Anyways, everything I have so far has been mail ordered, mainly through CI. I currently am rocking a 300 count humi sitting solid at 71-70ish RH,

I think I have a decent start of a collection. There really isn't much of a cigar culture in Japan, at least not in Okinawa, they all really stick to cigarettes. Sort of a downer, seeing as how Japan doesnt have any beef with Cuba, I was hoping to get some nice cuban smokes, but the only ones I have seen are all about 30 dollars and up, and honestly look fake, they are all sold out of those crappy glass case humi's that you see at head shops in the states, not too impressed really.

My current go to's are some RP vintage 1990 or 92, and for some reason lately the CAO box pressed Italias, they just consistently deliver! I am pretty excited though, I got a box worth of some Macanudo vintage 97s as well as some My Fathers resting right now, I figure I'll give them a couple of months to mature, its tough though, they are some beautiful looking/smelling smokes.

Anyways, here are some pictures of what I am working with

The humidor,



top drawer, I try to keep the celebration ones together Some delicious Cohiba blacks as well as those Macs I was talking about


second drawer, mainly Rocky Patels, have some Cain Daytonas and straight Ligeros, they have a really nice taste to em despite being on the cheaper end

and at the bottom I have my CAOs, some Nubs I bought just to try out and some other assorted flavors,


EDIT: I need to get a smaller picture it won't let me load, crazy Iphone.


Well, thats about it, I'm pretty new to cigar world, but have definitely gotten some really good smokes from the recommendations I've read from here.


-Jon