Long Journey Home-Narita/Tokyo

Trip Start Jun 16, 2006
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Trip End Jun 29, 2006


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Thursday, June 29, 2006

Our journey home started at 2 a.m. on Thursday morning/Wednesday night. We had dinner with our friends after work, and got back to the room to start packing around 10 p.m. We figured there was no point in trying to sleep since we had to check out a 2, so we watched a little tv and then headed out. Our plane left Guam at 4 a.m. and I have to say THANK YOU JAPAN AIRLINES-we got upgraded to first class. We were able to stretch out and catch a nap before landing in Narita at 7 a.m. Since we had an 11 hour layover, I decided to take a quick trip to Narita town to check out the sights. I just love the system of day room rentals and lounge chairs at the Narita/Tokyo airport. For about $20 bucks, we had a private room with twin beds, alarm clock, shower and toilet. We napped a little, freshened up and headed out for our adventure.

I did not expect it to be as hot as it was in Japan, it felt like Atlanta in late August-humid and nasty, AND this was at 10 in the morning A coke and a smile?
A coke and a smile?
 ! We hopped onto the rapid rail line and Narita was the first stop. I knew there was an old temple there and had read that if you follow the colored brick path starting at McDonald's that it would lead you there. Sure enough, found the Golden Arches and set off down the cobblestone street. We stopped at stores and vendors along the way, finishing up our souvenir shopping. It was a bit furthur than I expected, but we made it to the temple.

We made it back to the airport around 4 p.m. and our flight headed out at 6 p.m. (still Thursday) At this point we'd had about 5 hours sleep since getting up on Wednesday. I did a lot of sleeping on the 11 hour flight to Chicago and when we landed it was 3:00 p.m. We finally made it to Atlanta at 10 p.m.(still Thursday), but this was 12 noon on Friday Guam time. Confusing??? Right!!! Needless to say I had jet lag for days and my schedule was really screwed up. But I would go back to Guam in a heartbeat!
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blkgrl
blkgrl on Nov 12, 2006 at 11:47PM

Home again
It's nice that you guys had such a nice time. Thanks for sharing your journey. I hope to be Guam-bound some time in the near future.

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