We are just about to leave for a two-weeks/three-weekend trip (thus amazingly/unfashionably long by Japanese standards) to the home of the brave. Previous experience clearly leads me to believe that I will not be blogging about it as much as I should during the trip (the lack of a laptop this time makes this even less likely) nor after it. So instead I'll just briefly summarise the schedule in advance.

We are leaving Tokyo today at 18:00 and arrive in San Francisco at 11:07, a fact that Google Calendar seems to have trouble visualising appropriately, even though I registered these events with their respective time zones. We will be staying with Ashley and Maciej, who will also take us on camping trips to Yosemite for Saturday and Sunday (most likely in the rain), and to Big Sur the following weekend. The week in-between is reserved for sight-seeing in San Francisco, with a fancy cabaret/dinner show on Thursday. We will leave the Bay Area on Monday (May, 1st) for two nights in Las Vegas, including the world's biggest buffet and a helicopter tour of the Grand Canyon. On Wednesday off to our final stop, New York City, where Lu and Martin kindly agreed to take us in and will join us for the musical Chicago on Thursday. Monday, 8th, back to Tokyo, arriving there Tuesday afternoon.

Kitty will be staying with Faiz in nearby Kameido. All involved parties are intrigued how that will play out.

And now I really have to go find my sunglasses....