Monday, July 13, 2009
TRAVEL BLOG MOVED
The travel blog has moved over to Tumblr. I dunno why. Michael prefers it and I'm very neutral.
Friday, July 10, 2009
GOING BACK
Plane is TOMORROW at NOON! HOLY CRAP.
My feelings toward aircraft seems to have gotten worse of late for some reason, so now I'm officially nervous to fly. The only thing I really dislike is takeoff (maybe because I saw some Discovery channel show a year or two ago about a takeoff that turned two planes into a giant flaming death-a-thon, due to many factors (and a very rare occurrence in which two radios on the same frequency can resonate perfectly to cancel each other out)) I'm also not fond of the climbing-to-cruising altitude part, because it reminds me of how very high up in the air we are. :X Everything else about the flight is fine with me though.
Other that that, I'm pretty psyched. I think we'll have plugs on the plane (yay, tolerable 13 hour flight) and we - allegedly - might even have internet (yay SUPER tolerable 13 hour flight)! Today we're gonna search out some food options to bring on the plane (stupid liquid rules might prevent me from bringing my precious, precious Juicy Juice onboard... and we might have to search out some tiny condiment packages of mustard somewhere...) We've got some (crappy, non-New York) bagels to nom, and we're hoping that bologna sandwiches are feasible.
I think we'll have even more fun the second time around, because we know what we like to do and how to travel a little better than last time. Michael's still not confident in his Japanese language skills, although he's been hitting the Rosetta Stone pretty hard the past few months. I believe in him :)
We're heading to Shinjuku to recover from jet-lag for two days, then going to Nagoya for (oh my god) SUMO. Then we're hoppin' down to Kyoto and then Osaka to hang out with Evan-san (who's in Glorious Nippon for study-abroad, and is kind enough to let us crash with him AND do laundry at his place.) Then we're heading back up to Shinjuku (without Evan, sadly :( ) to spend the rest of the time up there. Hopefully we're gonna hang out with Alison (who lives around there) and she might show us a few new places. :)
wooooooo.
My feelings toward aircraft seems to have gotten worse of late for some reason, so now I'm officially nervous to fly. The only thing I really dislike is takeoff (maybe because I saw some Discovery channel show a year or two ago about a takeoff that turned two planes into a giant flaming death-a-thon, due to many factors (and a very rare occurrence in which two radios on the same frequency can resonate perfectly to cancel each other out)) I'm also not fond of the climbing-to-cruising altitude part, because it reminds me of how very high up in the air we are. :X Everything else about the flight is fine with me though.
Other that that, I'm pretty psyched. I think we'll have plugs on the plane (yay, tolerable 13 hour flight) and we - allegedly - might even have internet (yay SUPER tolerable 13 hour flight)! Today we're gonna search out some food options to bring on the plane (stupid liquid rules might prevent me from bringing my precious, precious Juicy Juice onboard... and we might have to search out some tiny condiment packages of mustard somewhere...) We've got some (crappy, non-New York) bagels to nom, and we're hoping that bologna sandwiches are feasible.
I think we'll have even more fun the second time around, because we know what we like to do and how to travel a little better than last time. Michael's still not confident in his Japanese language skills, although he's been hitting the Rosetta Stone pretty hard the past few months. I believe in him :)
We're heading to Shinjuku to recover from jet-lag for two days, then going to Nagoya for (oh my god) SUMO. Then we're hoppin' down to Kyoto and then Osaka to hang out with Evan-san (who's in Glorious Nippon for study-abroad, and is kind enough to let us crash with him AND do laundry at his place.) Then we're heading back up to Shinjuku (without Evan, sadly :( ) to spend the rest of the time up there. Hopefully we're gonna hang out with Alison (who lives around there) and she might show us a few new places. :)
wooooooo.
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