As hard as Ryan and I tried, we are still up to some ungodly hours organizing and packing for tomorrow’s 8:50 am departure. On the bright side, staying up late will hopefully help us adjust more quickly to Tokyo time.
What all are we packing in our 55 liter bags, you may ask? At this point, I have absolutely no clue! We have one week’s worth of clothing, some warm outer items for Mt. Fuji, and about 10 photocopies of our passports . . . I’m only a little neurotic. Ah, and of course we are bringing two epi-pens and printouts that say ‘I get sick from nuts’ in six languages. Take a look at all my stuff laid out on the bedroom floor before packing.
We’ve had a great time hanging out with friends in Austin this week. P&E invited us to dinner on Tuesday night, followed by a hike with the Strevigs on Wednesday, then watched the NFL season opener (sorry Ravens fans) with RDB and Julia, and enjoyed dinner tonight with Cheng, Negina, John, Shelley, Ella, Cisco, Tony, and Gloria. Thanks to Glo for organizing! We’ll miss all you guys the next few months!
P.S. Happy anniversary Kris and Dal!
Hurray for you guys! I hope you have a bit of fun for yourselves.
We are a month and a day into our year-long trip. Are you checking up on us? (1WorldAtATime.com) We’ll be looking in on you. Happy travels!
Don’t throw away those translations, we may need them one day! Have a great honeymoon!
hey Im reading these
Here are my suggestions:
1) kobe beef
2) oh-toro (fatty tuna)
3) kabuchiko (hostess bars) dont go with the south africans
4) yakitori
5) shabbu shabbu
I love that you posted a pic of your packing because I was so curious about your 55 liter backpack. So impressed with the small amount of stuff. Hope you had a good flight over to Tokyo. Miss you already!