Ready to Go

Everything is all packed up besides the clothes I'll change into tomorrow. Only took me about 20 minutes to get it all together. It's convenient living out of a suitcase at Angela's house so it makes the actual trip to Japan easier.

I wasn't able to get a gift-basket or something along those lines for my Hokkaido host family. All I have is a lousy Gettysburg College golf-towel, so I think I'll just treat them all to dinner somewhere, preferably the yaki-tori bar we went to when I was there. It's a good place for get-togethers and the like. Then again they may have something in the airport but I doubt I could carry it.

So I get to leave here at 3:30AM which means I get up at 3:00AM to shower and pack up the last things that are left. I'm going to try and treat Angela's Dad to a breakfast or at least a donut at the airport since I feel bad making him get up so early for my sake. My plane leaves at 6:00Am, and I'll be in Vancouver Canada at 6:50. The flight to Japan from there is at 12:45PM, so I have a nice long wait there. It's too bad I couldn't get a later flight there but I hastily prepared for all of this on Priceline. Next time you go internationl, use a travel agent. I spotted a Japanese one in Seattle outside the Uwajimaya store which I wish I used. But oh well.

Another ramification of Priceline is that I have to take a shuttle bus from Narita Int'l to Haneda Airport. Hopefully I can find that quick enough and not be bogged down due to being a foreigner traveling through customs and all of that. I have 3 hours to make it there so I should be fine.

And Kansai says that my Osaka flight might be changed to Kansai Int'l? It's all very odd. I have directions from either airport to be safe. I'm really not worried at all about any of it, but it will kind of suck getting to my dorm room at 10:00PM or so over there, which is 5:00AM on West-Coast time, 8:00AM on East-Coast time. So I'll only be up for 26 hours, not too bad. I think I'll adjust fine...

Well, here's to a good trip!