There is something fascinating about traveling. As I make my way to the airport, I realize that it is the middle of the night where I am going. I’m also really interested in the idea of crossing the international date line. I leave today in the morning and, 11 hours later, it is tomorrow afternoon. I leave at 12:40pm, land at 4pm, but have lost an entire day.
The flight was great and the plane wasn’t full so I had space to stretch out. It was light the whole flight, so 2 movies and several TV shows I still wasn’t tired. As I opened the window shade to look at the view for landing, I was struck by the fact that it looked a lot like landing in the Netherlands (and it took almost the same amount of time to get there). After I went through customs, one of the first signs I could read said, “Wilkommen in Narita.” Narita is the name of the airport and the welcome was in several languages, but I still thought maybe I had landed in the Netherlands!
Other similarities to the Netherlands: Bikes everywhere, bike paths, narrow streets, Gouda cheese (yes, really), weather feels very similar
I arrived in Sapporo around 10pm. Teresa picked me up and on the way home we stopped for dinner—at 7-11!! However, here it’s called 7iHoldings. It was like a Japanese deli, so we got some sushi and a other snacks. We were home and I was in bed by 11pm, which meant that it was 7am my time and it had be about 24 hours of awake time.
The flight was great and the plane wasn’t full so I had space to stretch out. It was light the whole flight, so 2 movies and several TV shows I still wasn’t tired. As I opened the window shade to look at the view for landing, I was struck by the fact that it looked a lot like landing in the 
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