Month: May 2008

We’re home. We’ve actually been home for about 24 hours but I haven’t had a chance to put anything up here before now. The return trip was uneventful. I don’t think that there’s much to say about it except that nine-hour flights are somewhat awful to endure. I spent most of the time playing with my DS Lite, I think.

Long-distance travel and the resulting change of time zones is just odd. We woke up in Kyoto at 6:00AM (Kyoto time), traveled by plane for about 12 hours, auto for a total of about three hours, and sat around in between for a bunch more hours, and arrived at home in Boulder at about 5:00PM (Boulder time) on the same day, even though our total travel time was nearly 24 hours. read more

Today we travel back to our home in Boulder. I may or may not have the opportunity to write another post before we leave. If I don’t post again shortly, it’ll be at least 24 hours before my next post. It takes quite some time to get from Kyoto to Boulder.

I have enough thoughts for a couple more posts about this trip, and I plan to put up lots more photos, so keep checking this site for another few days. Thanks for your interest!

One box of four packages of green tea KitKats. How could I resist? I couldn’t, obviously.

Today is our last full day in Kyoto; tomorrow we start our long journey home just after noon. We didn’t have any specific plans for the day. Perhaps because we ended up with more Japanese cash on hand than we expected, our thoughts turned to shopping. Tracie had seen some bowls in Tokyo which she regretted passing up (mostly because we didn’t have any way to get them home) and I was arriving at the conclusion that plastic Gundam models are harder to obtain in this country than I had expected and hence regretting that I’d passed some up in Tokyo. We seriously considered hopping on a shinkansen, buzzing up to Tokyo, doing some mad shopping, and buzzing back in time for dinner. Ultimately Tracie ruled out this notion on the grounds that she’s “old and crippled”. I don’t think of her as either, but she’s the one who has to walk in her shoes, so to speak. read more