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The Good, The Bad and the Tugly
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Stepping into the small international flights terminal a helpful security person informed us that there were no flights to China that evening. She pointed to a sign printed in Japanese and English that stated Hainan Airlines had cancelled all their flights to and from Okinawa for a month. Apparently it had to do with the current dispute between China and Japan concerning ownership of a couple of islands .
The Rope Festival had all the rooms in Naha ...
Finding Nemo
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Our room is tatami style ( no beds, just cushioned mats that you put on the floor). I did have the foresight to bring my camping “Thermarest” and have used it several times so far in our travels.
Having a good 5 hours of sunlight left in the day, we picked up some masks and snorkels and rented some bikes. Zamami is not a big island and we came to a public beach within a kilometer of the main village. ...
Sayonara, Japan!
This was our last full day in Japan. I had class via internet in the morning so we headed out for an early lunch after that. We ate at the local Italian restaurant where I had some amazing eggplant curry. (I know – it makes no sense that I ate Indian food at the Italian restaurant in Japan, but that is the way it was!) Then, we had some time to kill before Josh got off work. We went back to the American Village ...
Shisa, Bingata, and School Life
Wow! It has been two incredible days since I last blogged. Monday was a day for laundry, studying and some rest. In the evening, we met up with Josh for an early dinner. Tuesday, we went to the local stores to look at the Japanese world. We went to their version of a department store, a grocery store, and a hardware store. It was fun to interface with the ...
Okinawa
If you were following you noticed the travel blog has been lacking a bit. I got out of the habit while in China so I'm going to add a whole bunch of entries at once-and hopefully consolidate well:) Did you really expect any different:)
Left Tokyo and after 2 hours I was on the tropical island of Okinawa-taking ...