Japan, here I come

Saturday, 4 Aug 2007 | Journal

The other day I was reading my email (yes, on my new phone) and I got a message from Natalie confirming that she had booked a ticket. She will visit me in Thailand first and then on her way back visit another friend who lives in Japan. When she told me of these plans, I decided (and she didn’t mind, or so at least it seems!) to join her for the visit to Japan. So I’ll be looking at some tickets this week.

Visiting Japan has been a dream for a long, long time. I have all these wild ideas about Japan, dreams that in some cases without a doubt will turn out not to be true at all but in other cases I expect Japan to be even weirder than I think it is. It’s only 11 weeks away now!

I know a few people here in Bangkok that have lived in Japan and they will hopefully provide me with some ideas. Natalie without a doubt has a lot of things planned. And at some point I’ll do some research myself of where I would like to go and what I would like to see. I might also use this as a scouting trip, spending some time trying to network a bit. We’ll see I guess.