My Side of the Fuji

Photos Here! This was Super Bowl Monday Morning - 8AM in Japan. Hooray, The Eagles winning, but more like, "Hooray, someone other than the Patriots winning!" But the Eagles totally deserved it. But that's all old and American news. After the SuperBowl was over, we headed over to Masaki's train stop where he kindly stored our more bulky luggage, since domestic flights are a pretty hefty fee for checked luggage, and our backpacks are too large to be considered carry-ons for the Jetstar airline. So, that was convenient. We then went through Masaki's local grocery store and I got an Onigiri. It's a triangular-shaped hand-sized rice...packet, wrapped in the dry, crispy seaweed. The kind I got is Masaki's favorite, with pickled kelp in the middle. It was good. Perfect train food. We got on a train and headed to Yokohama. It took about 2 hours to get there. We found our Air B'n'B and rested for a minute or two, then got on another train for about a...

Photos Here Day 3 started rather late. We slept well and met up with Masaki in the afternoon. We took the train to Yokohama and went to a store "Uniqlo" to get Wayne some thermals, in preparation for our trip to Sapporo, as we will probably be outside for long periods of time and it's very cold there. The "Heattech" is Japanese technology and is very warm. They had a lot of it. They even had slacks with the technology. I'm wondering is Sapporo will be super crowded this year, since the winter olympics are taking place so nearby in South Korea. After the store, we met Masaki's friend Koji. He works in an office for studying and reducing environmental impact during construction. He works a typical 12 hour Japanese work day. Not even joking. 12 hours is the minimum people work. Because of this, they don't eat supper until after 9PM. That's the usual dinner time. Koji likes his job a lot, he said, so it doesn't bother him. Masaki talks a ...