Overall it took me about 28 hours of straight on traveling to get from DC to Japan. So I took the subway to the Megabus. From Megabus to New York Penn Station (roughly). From Penn Station I took the New Jersey Transit train to Newark Liberty International Airport. Or I would have if the folks at Penn Station realized that the train they put me ( Read more... )

As I'm preparing to go to Japan this Wednesday I've been reading up like crazy on what all this radiation talk is about.  Thankfully people have been posting all kinds of wonderful data and resources about it.

Premiere among the places that are offering level headed information is BoingBoing.  Maggie Koerth-Baker's continual updates of information ( Read more... )