Welcome to our travelblog first of all. We'll do our best to keep you informed about where we're at, what we're up to, and how we're doing as we go. Mere & I had our last days of work yesterday and as I stumbled through the door after drinking heavily (that's about 3 beers for me) with the fine folks at Sierra I declared enthusiastically, "The honeymoon has begun!!!!". Mere's no longer using her Masters Degree in Counseling on the landscaping crew she's now finished with and I'm no longer accumulating repetitive micro-trauma in my hands, arms & shoulders as a software developer with Sierra Systems...at least not for 6 months anyways...
It's Saturday today, Mere & I woke up at 6:30am our brains teeming over with things to do, decisions to make, stuff to pack and people to connect with so our typical sleep-in was not an option.
We're having our going away party tonight, which unlike our trip is grossly underplanned but we managed to avoid having Karaoke and now just need to buy a sack of sushi rice, cook it, prep some filling, bake some pot cookies, buy some booze and let the good times roll.
Will do our best to keep you posted on this site as our adventure continues to unfold.
Here's our current itinerary for Japan so we can do a estimated vs. actual comparative analysis as we go:
The itinerary so far is:
Arrive Tokyo Oct. 11th (the day of our first wedding anniversary).
Leave Tokyo Oct. 15th and take ferry from Oorai to Hokkaido.
Spend 4 days on farm wwoofing beside Daisetzuan national Park
Spend 4 days hiking in Daisetzuan national Park
Take ferry from Otaru to Niigata and then ferry to Sado Island.
Spend 4-5 days on farm woofing on Sado Island. Visit Kodo Village where the world famous Kodo drummers are based.
Take ferry to Niigata & bus down to Kyoto for a week.
At that point we'll be in striking range for a visit to Osaka to see Ken Tupper's friend, his wife, his kid and his cat.
I also have a friend in Okayama who wants to take us to a taiko concert on Nov. 11th.
There's a great party in Tokyo on Nov. 14th we've been invited to.
We're also planning on meeting up with Teruyo from Uminari Taiko(www.uminaritaiko.com) and her family for a flower festival in the remote town of Toiei where the taiko group Shidara are from on Nov. 20&21
We fly out of Tokyo Nov. 27th.
All of this is subject to change. We'll see how we go!
Here's an untested attempt at linking to the personalized google map I've been working from of Japan:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=109908084835357627514.0004626e56162ca55dd67&ll=36.491973,137.768555&spn=11.771573,19.753418&z=6
and here's my first attempt to embed the same map here:
View Japan in a larger map
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