Greetings, readers

Dane speaking.

Two days ago, we set out from Boulder, CO. We are now in Utsunomiya, about 40 minutes by train north of Tokyo. Travelling is CRAZY.

Begin: 8:00 AM Boulder CO, Ian's house. Thanks to Zack for driving us to the airport. Anyway, we probably should have alloted more time to get to the plane, but in summary, we ended sprinting the last stretch, only to find out that the toilet on the plane was being repaired, so the plane was delayed.

Two hours later we landed in San Francisco, and realized that rather than having a 4 hour layover, we had a 90 minute layover. More rushing. Also, valuable wisdom: When travelling to another country, have plans already made to exit that country. They don't like having travellers with open-ended plans. But, in the end, we didn't have too much trouble.

The flight from San Francisco was about 10 hours total. The food was decent, and it was a fairly comfortable flight. We landed at the Narita International Airport at about 4:00pm local time. That's 1:00am in Boulder. We didn't get to our hosts' house until about 9:00pm local time. That's 6:00am in Boulder. It took us 20 hours to get to our hosts' house.

By the way, thanks a TON to our hosts, Ton, Joey, and Luke (their son) for picking us up from the train station, giving us food, a shower and a place to stay.

It's now 7:00am local time, and all of us are awake. I think I'll pass the torch to the next person.

G'bye
-Dane