Hiroshima

Hiroshima, peace, and a bullet train to Kyoto

Posted by Jason on March 23, 2013 - 4:49pm in Our Travels.
When: 
March 9, 2013

We are about to go to bed in our "Tea Ceremony" room in a ryokan, a Japanese-style inn, in Kyoto after a long day of sightseeing and travel. Our day started around 6am in Hiroshima, when Katie and I both gave up on trying to get anymore sleep. Jet-lag has been really bad. After a Japanese-style breakfast at the hotel (rice porridge, smoked salmon, miso soup, salad, and various other small dishes), we took a walk to Peace Memorial Park, to see all the monuments dedicated to the victims of the atomic bomb blast.

A late night Hiroshima adventure

Posted by Jason on March 23, 2013 - 3:09am in Our Travels.
When: 
March 9, 2013

It's 4AM here and I'm pretty wide awake, despite only sleeping about 5 hours last night. This big time change will probably take a few days to adjust to.

In the air to Hiroshima

Posted by Jason on March 23, 2013 - 2:45am in Our Travels.
When: 
March 8, 2013

I'm on my way to Hiroshima! I left Seattle at 12:30pm pacific time (or 5:30am Japan time). I have now been traveling for nearly 13 hours, and I have about 2 more to go before I get to the hotel. The flight from Seattle to Tokyo was long, over 10 hours. I didn't sleep, but kept busy with a movie, reading, music, eating, and playing solitaire on my phone. All in all, not a bad flight. The landing in Tokyo was very bumpy, with lots of side-to-side and up-and-down motion, but our pilot brought us down very gently.

Japan - March 2013

Posted by Jason on March 22, 2013 - 11:37pm in Our Travels.
When: 
March 7, 2013 to March 16, 2013

Katie and I recently got back from our trip to Japan. We decided to have Penelope stay at home while we traveled, rather than bringing her with us, and this was the first time we had both been away from her at the same time for more than a single night. It was hard for us to be away, and a little hard on Penelope too, but it really worked out for the best. We were able to do the things that we wanted to do that would have been too boring for Penelope, without having to worry about naps and strange potties (she would have loved the food, though).