Three days in Tokyo = 20000 yen (~$200)
Ten days in Thailand = $420
All flights included = $100.25 + 16600 yen (~$166)
Three days with Katsu and his family = priceless
Ten days with Benjamin "8th wonder of the world" Schechter = radical!
Total of 10 days in Thailand and only 7 pictures to show for it! = mendokusai!
Two weeks to travel... to think, feel, be, act = perfect timing.
Three dives (first in three years!) was a first time in tropical waters- and wow the life was incredible... those lionfish are so pretty and so deadly; catchin' up with old and older friends and new ones too; 'yakin' damn near all day and then for another sunset; saved two lives in two countries; pad thai and masaman curry- yes, life changing; caveman coconut cracking-into; tanning into the dark brown I used to always have (summers in SoCal); down 1-4 in five games of chess (I should have quit when I caught up after the second game); re-energized to live in this life and the next(s); read 3.3 books: "White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga, the Memoirs of the Dalai Lama, Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not," and into the first third of "Three Cups of Tea," by Greg Mortensen; got to working on the patience that I had lost... and I have a long way to go!
Back at home in Japan and well rested after an intense six months of international travel, seemingly back-to-back. And, as we landed at Narita, we were informed about the quarantine that we had coming... fools in masks rushed aboard to check on the sick passenger in the back... turned out to be motion sickness after all... my flight was safe that day, but apparently there were three infected fools on a flight right after ours!
And with that... Happy Spring and Peace be with you.
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Japan is glad to have you back!!!
btw... ALL your flights costed you less than $300?! WOW!!! That's amazing!
I can't wait to hear more stories!!!
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