A few months ago I announced to my friends that I had decided to go to Japan to try to catch the hanami season. I guess that got Charles thinking. My plan is to go in March and it turns out that that is almost exactly when the Osaka Basho (the Osaka sumo tournament) takes place. He decided that he would like to go at the same time to catch the tournament. We are going to together. Cool. We are going to start with Osaka, spend a week there and the surrounding cities then move on to Tokyo and the surrounding area. I think Charles will be a good travel companion. He knows that we wont have to spend all our time together. We can spend some days hanging out and other days doing our own things.
So anyway, Charles has been getting airline quotes. The best deal for both of us is to go on separate flights. Charles, because he is using his air miles points, has to fly with Air Canada. I am flying with Northwest, through Detroit. My flight is about $300 less than flying out of Vancouver. Charles will be arriving in Kansai airport a few hours before me and will wait for me there.
I recently came into some money that I didn't expect to actually have (payback of money owed me from years ago by my ex). That will cover most of the cost of my ticket. That plus my Christmas money and the money the dojo payed me back for buying Christmas gifts for the sensei completely covers the flight with about $100 left over which will go to buying the JR rail pass.
This trip is coming together nicely. I can't wait.
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Excellent! Glad to hear it's shaping up so well for you! Do not forget to bring back tokens of friendship for your friends.
I wont. My friends will be receiving the most inappropriate gifts I can find. :-)
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