It had become clear that we were adjusting for jetlag backwards: we were mostly awake between 12:30 and 7am, talking, showering, soaking beat-up feet and applying Tiger Balm, watching TV, etc, with a nap somewhere in there. Turning on Japanese TV for the first time was pretty entertaining. Too bad they didn’t play any prime-time
Vacation
Japan Honeymoon – 50%
It’s pretty lame to start every post with a jetlag update. But, seriously, both people waking up to the morning at 11:58pm was not funny. We lay down less than 3 hours ago! Mixing half-ass attempts to sleep, shower, and magazines, we killed enough time before getting breakfast from 7-Eleven at 4:30. Oh thank heaven.
Japan Honeymoon – 40%
The jetlag problem improved drastically today as we woke up at 3 and stopped pretending to sleep by 3:30. We carried on some deep conversations (because 3 hours of sleep really cleared our heads like Drano would a toilet) for two hours, then we stepped our for an early morning walk like a grandparent-aged couple.
Japan Honeymoon – 30%
From way back, I had expected to experience jet lag on the first morning. I even planned around it strategically by arranging the trip to the fish market, which starts its daily business before dawn, on the first day. There’d be neither painful attempt to wake up early, nor would early bird sleeplessness be too
Japan Honeymoon – 20%
The thing I hate the most about traveling to Asia is, how do I count? Is the first day a 36-hour day, or are the first two days 18-hour days each? When you’re grown up and each vacation day is worth at least a few hundred bucks, it’s scary to think that a good three
Japan Honeymoon – 10%
Sitting on the airplane, at the gate, waiting to take off from one of the crappiest airports in the country. The lady next to us has both hands covered in blood from some serious wounds – good thing I’m going on a honeymoon with a doctor, who’s prepared with first-aid supplies. What concerned me more
Japan Trip Planning 2
When we first decided on going to Japan for honeymoon, we wanted to go with a tour group. It is, after all, a foreign country where none of our 3 languages would work very well. But after going through a lot of travel agencies and comparing packages from both the U.S. and Taiwan, the plan
Japan Trip Planning
We’ll be visiting Japan in about 3 weeks. This is exciting. Among all foreign countries that we haven’t been, Japan is the one that I love and hate the most, find the most similarities and extreme differences, really want to visit and at the same time desperately trying to avoid. It was, after all, an
LA
Shortly after the wedding, we flew out to LAX in preparation of a big family event. Although it wasn’t quite a “honeymoon”, it was a very nice vacation. California is the state of sunshine in my heart (screw Florida), and it felt great to be hangout out in the dry climate with the warm but
VT Trip (2/2)
Going back to school always makes me happy. Even back in the days when driving down I-81 meant having to prepare for finals after Thanksgiving, I could never help but start to hum “country road… take me home…” Well, this time we picked a really memorable weekend to visit. The school was shut down on Friday, and