Unreal is only word I can use to describe the last 2 days. Just a hint: 3 days in Japan = 3 nights of Karaoke! We have been treated like rock stars since the day we arrived. 5-10 Japanese Rotarians are constantly shuffling us around to various sightseeing destinations. In 2 days I have learned how to perform Zen Buddhist Meditation Ceremony comp...

I completed the long flight to Japan. My plan to sleep during the flight worked well. I slept for nearly 8 hours during the flight. I am on the flight to Miyazaki from Nigoya. I am hungry, tired and I have travel grime. I can't wait to get to the hotel and settle in. It's 5:20 pm in Japan and 4:20 am in the Eastern time zone. I've been travelin...

Hey Hey and a Big G'Day toya, Well what does an idiot do when his feet are hurting and complaining and the skin is beginning to split where his toes join to his feet? What does he do? He stupidly spends most of the day walking doesn't he! I rose really early as I had decided to walk around to the other side of the volcano to another town there s...