Japan trip OMG OMG OMG, The Sequel
SO! Stuff I needed to do that I've done:
* Sent off for my passport.
* Paid my final payment for the tour. Holy shit.
* Gotten maps of Osaka, Kyoto, Nara and Tokyo.
* Gotten an international adaptor plug thingie.
* Gotten a very nifty walking-stick (it collapses! Hopefully it'll keep ME from collapsing!)
* Arranged for two very, very wonderful friends to stay at my place while I'm gone and keep the weezuls and cats from having wild parties.
* Researched places to go and things to see.
* Lost seven pounds total in the last few weeks. NOT ENOUGH. Working on it!
* Freaked out quite a lot when I discovered that my ryokan in Nara was actually in Oji.
* Stopped freaking out when I realized that they're pretty damn close together.
The diet-and-exercise-plan is going full tilt; I'm learning about all sorts of foods I had declined to try-- do y'all know how freaking DELICIOUS couscous is? I mean, I've always liked it, but I hadn't considered it a main dinner-food before, just a side dish. Sooo tasty... As for excercise, I took a few days off from it due to wrenching my knee; was gonna get back on the horse tonight but I think it'll be tomorrow night instead. **guilty** Am eating dinner right now, and it's harder to exercise after I've eaten. Tomorrow, though, I swear!
There's so much I want to see on this trip; I wish I was going to have more time after the tour's over instead of just four days, but that's how it is-- I'll just have to save up and go back some day. I'd love to go up north to Hokkaido in the winter, or to Kyoto in the spring; paying for this, of course, is the problem... but isn't it always? And I can dream; things always start with a dream or they never go anywhere.
There are other places I want to see: Rome, Wales again, Canada, Egypt, Thailand, Vietnam, Iceland... so many places. Think my next target should be Wales, though-- heh, I keep aiming for smallish island nations. Oh well, they're easy to travel in and they have lots of beaches; can't go wrong with that. ^__^
* Sent off for my passport.
* Paid my final payment for the tour. Holy shit.
* Gotten maps of Osaka, Kyoto, Nara and Tokyo.
* Gotten an international adaptor plug thingie.
* Gotten a very nifty walking-stick (it collapses! Hopefully it'll keep ME from collapsing!)
* Arranged for two very, very wonderful friends to stay at my place while I'm gone and keep the weezuls and cats from having wild parties.
* Researched places to go and things to see.
* Lost seven pounds total in the last few weeks. NOT ENOUGH. Working on it!
* Freaked out quite a lot when I discovered that my ryokan in Nara was actually in Oji.
* Stopped freaking out when I realized that they're pretty damn close together.
The diet-and-exercise-plan is going full tilt; I'm learning about all sorts of foods I had declined to try-- do y'all know how freaking DELICIOUS couscous is? I mean, I've always liked it, but I hadn't considered it a main dinner-food before, just a side dish. Sooo tasty... As for excercise, I took a few days off from it due to wrenching my knee; was gonna get back on the horse tonight but I think it'll be tomorrow night instead. **guilty** Am eating dinner right now, and it's harder to exercise after I've eaten. Tomorrow, though, I swear!
There's so much I want to see on this trip; I wish I was going to have more time after the tour's over instead of just four days, but that's how it is-- I'll just have to save up and go back some day. I'd love to go up north to Hokkaido in the winter, or to Kyoto in the spring; paying for this, of course, is the problem... but isn't it always? And I can dream; things always start with a dream or they never go anywhere.
There are other places I want to see: Rome, Wales again, Canada, Egypt, Thailand, Vietnam, Iceland... so many places. Think my next target should be Wales, though-- heh, I keep aiming for smallish island nations. Oh well, they're easy to travel in and they have lots of beaches; can't go wrong with that. ^__^