The Very Distand Future: Traveling To Japan
Reading AnnaTheRed's blog for the past two weeks or so, detailing her trip to Japan (where she got engaged! O_O), has renewed my strong wish to visit Japan. Once again I've been looking into prices, and one thing I have definitely decided upon is that no matter WHAT, we must not visit during the spring/summer. Yes, it would be awesome prettiness (though, now that we live in Oregon, where we get that same sort of awesomeness, it's not as desperately appealing), but those are the peak seasons of travel. I've been looking at the prices for traveling around the September-November range, and the prices are dramatically different from when I looked at it last (where I was looking at like April-August ranges--stupid me). I would say that a trip to Japan will still cost around $5,000...but this time, instead of $5,000 for a week-long thing, I'm talking $5,000 for two weeks, or longer.
I also think that it's interesting, at least for me, to just look at things like that. I feel like the more familiar I get with the expectaction of what it would cost, where I would want to go, and how long I would want to do things, that I can more realistically think about it as something that I will ACTUALLY do. Looking makes me feel more like it's a real possible thing, even if at the same time I'm going, "We won't be able to afford anything like this for at least several more years, not at the rate we're going."
I'm going to keep looking into it. I don't know when it will happen, but I have faith that we will do it. One of these days, I'm going to be on this blog, and talking about how excited I am that tomorrow we're finally going to Japan. I believe in it.
I also think that it's interesting, at least for me, to just look at things like that. I feel like the more familiar I get with the expectaction of what it would cost, where I would want to go, and how long I would want to do things, that I can more realistically think about it as something that I will ACTUALLY do. Looking makes me feel more like it's a real possible thing, even if at the same time I'm going, "We won't be able to afford anything like this for at least several more years, not at the rate we're going."
I'm going to keep looking into it. I don't know when it will happen, but I have faith that we will do it. One of these days, I'm going to be on this blog, and talking about how excited I am that tomorrow we're finally going to Japan. I believe in it.