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Phase II begins tomorrow!
Oh yeah, tomorrow morning bright and early we all jump on the big plane to Tokyo. Thing is, I don’t know how often I will be able to update the site while we’re underway. I will do my best, though. The bulk of it will be after I return…. In the meantime, I will be [...]
Mar. 11 Earthquake….
Yeah, that was fun. Until we learned just how bad it *really* was. We had just gotten off the Sumida river cruise boat at Hamarikyu Gardens, and were admiring the plum trees in bloom, when blammo. WTF. Is. This. Keep in mind this was mine and the kids first earthquake. No, not a short little [...]
Update
First off, we really don’t have any really impressive video of the earthquake. You’ve seen it all already. A shaking tree is about the best we’ve got. Also not interested in being celebrities due to our proximity…. Really our story isn’t all that interesting, especially considering the real story is north of here where the [...]
Another Update…
It’s Tue. 3/15 about 3:30pm. Yesterday was a bit of a challenge. The trains were totally messed up, but we managed to make our way on the Yamanote line from Shibuya to Hamamatsucho to see Shibarikyu Gardens and visit the Pokemon Center with the kids. The kids got a taste of the sardine-can rush hour [...]
Thoughts
Yes, we made it back in the USSA Wed. evening, home by 9:30 PM after a LONG day of travelling. Added up it was something like 27 hours total from doorstep to doorstep. Train-train-train-plane-plane-car-pass out…. I realize I didn’t update things as often as I would have liked. Mainly because bandwidth was problematic (we had [...]
