Day One - Travel Day!

Date: August 9, 2009 - Sunday
Time: 11:30AM - 12PM

This is the start of my travel log. What's my destination? TOKYO, JAPAN.
That's right! After 5 years of dreaming and planning to go, it finally happened. My planned travel buddies always changed, but I finally found one on such a whim too.
It all started (and ended) like this:

Me: I wanna go to Japan.... Let's go this summer!
Deanna: .... Okay!
Me: You think i'm kidding? Im not
Deanna: ... Okay!

Haha! Yeahh... not the exact convo, but pretty close.

My original idea was to go for Arashi's 10th Anniversary. Turns out they're celebrating in the winter than their usualy summer concerts... booo... BUT i'm happy and super excited despite haha.

I'm actually on route to Japan as I'm writing this. The view at take off was amazing. I couldn't believe how much prettier San Francisco was until that aerial shot. The fog was rolling in (or maybe even away) and engulfed the Golden Gate Bridge. It was such an amazing shot. Too bad no camera or electronics could be turned on...

So, Flying United Airlines, not an empty <--Ha! I mean not a full plane. Got myself a little extra room to stretch .. next to the window with Deanna falling asleep at the other end haha.
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So, Just had lunch or dinner or whatever, ginger chicken salad and an oatmeal bar, which was actually super yummy! (love & quiche haha)

I feel bad cuz we kicked some guy out of his seat, then it happened 3 times cuz of Lady.

It looks like it's bed time even though it's day out. They turned off all the cabin lights and told us to close our shades. 10 minutes later, they turn them back on and now we're in turbulence mode. Seat belts back to buckled. Btw, I'm still hungry Haha.
*Buckles off again Haha, never ending process.

David Archuleta's "Crush" is playing on the planes radio. A little fuzzy but still sounds good enough to listen to.

I Just found an 80's station, i think, sweet!

Okay, right now i'm wondering what time it is. It's crazy not knowing what time it is... I'd say we were in ehre for at least 2 hours, but it sure doesn't feel like it.

Judging by the video we're being shown, we're heading up North and are about where Oregon and Washington is. Still a hefty chunk left for the flight. I'm worried about when we get there. My Japanese isn't the best and my skills are dreadful... I'll be lucky to remember stuff...

The in flight movie is on, but I didn't see what it was. Paul Giamati and Julia Roberts is in it. I wonder. I'll just keep listening to music Haha. I think i'll end this for now. Be back when we get to the hotel.
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*The view from Narita Express train from the airport to Tokyo Station. 
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Notes:
There are 3 seats per row on the sides of the plane, so me and Deanna had some guy with us. He ended up moving to an empty section since there was plenty of space available (1). He was kicked out of the section he moved to sit somewhere else (2). Later, he was asked to move again because some lady needed the whole row to lie down due to motion sickness (3). I felt bad for him =(

Travel Log Intro

So i mentioned that I'd be posting up my travel log from my trip to Japan.
The way it's written, everything crossed out, the laughs, all of that.. it's EXACTLY how it's written in the notebook.

I'll occasionally put in my own color coded notes here and there at the end of the entry.

Btw, i'm warning you now that I tend to ramble on about really random stuff!

First Ramblings..

This is the start of it all. Just like a typical first post on most peoples blogs, this is a post about letting everyone know it's my first post in my blog. How original right? haha

From time to time i'll be writing up my travel log when I went to Japan this summer (which was the whole idea of having this blog).

This blog is also a way to let me express myself. It's been a while since I've had the chance to write in a blog. I still have my accounts in Livejournal, Vox and Xanga, but never kept at it. Xanga was actually my everyday posting blog, but I really don't know when it just..stopped.

I'm really hoping that it'll change this time around as I set up this new one.

I'll worry about a more detailed post next time. Until then.......
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EDIT// (2012.02.11)
I want to edit on what this blog is all about.  Originally I intended it to be just to post up my travel entries from Japan, but i've ended up traveling somewhere every year since that trip and have kept a notebook by my side the entire time.  


This will definitely be a travel blog for myself and maybe some day I'll be able to update entries in real time rather than after I've written them in a notebook.


Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy reading my adventures :)