Today I shop for whatever I need then pack it. Ni-mh batteries, Personals, travel goods, passport, papers, etc. It all gets done today without distraction.

I can’t say how this makes me a little nervous. I think i’ve already maxed out my camera’s mem card with family pics and self pics. The cat must be blind by now with all the flash pics I took of him. All in all, most of the “farewells” have passed making today and tomorrow essentially the calm before the storm meaning that this time will be just me in waiting for the *big trip.* With all my stuff packed, papers in order, and people contacted for arrival arrangements. I sit and wait. Tomorrow I’ll try to reflect on what this means to me… I’ve lived and traveled in North America for my entire 21 years and 10 months without leaving this giant mainland. In roughly 49 hours all this will change! What a mind trip!

~J

PS: *New Layout*

With the new settings in blogger beta, I’ve redone my blog a little to add more life to it. I know I need more pics and that’ll come in time. For now I’ve added some more links and two new feeds: Google World News & Tokyo Times. Right now I’m looking for a time and date feed from Sapporo to add which would say what the time is in Japan, but till then you can use the “world clock” link in my links sidebar. I’m still editing the site and may add or delete feeds for better ones. we’ll see.

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