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9 days and counting…

Posted by Mark | Filed under Travel

As briefly men­tioned in var­i­ous posts on this blog, I’ll be head­ing to Japan for a vacation/class. The cur­rent count is 9 days until take­off. I’ve got all the omiyage that I’m going to take with me. I’ve got plenty of clothes¹. I’ve got my lug­gage. I’ve started plan­ning how I’ll be pack­ing for the trip and what all I want to take with me besides clothes (e.g. cam­era, sketch­pad, san­ity). I am get­ting very excited about this trip, but it still feels some­what unreal to me.

In part because I still don’t believe I’ve got enough money to do this² and in part because I’ve not been on an air­plane since I was two. I don’t remem­ber that flight but my Mom tells me that I han­dled it fairly well. The flight is one part of the trip that I’m not all that happy about as it’s four­teen hours in coach and while my legs do fold up; I’m pretty sure it’s going to be mis­er­able for me. Of course, the worse part of the flight for me is that I’ve enjoyed watch­ing too many dis­as­ter movies where planes have exploded, crashed, been ripped to shreds or some­thing equally nasty hap­pened to the pas­sen­gers. It didn’t really help that I caught the episode of Myth­busters³ where they “fire a bul­let into the shell of an air­craft to find out if a sin­gle shot can cause explo­sive decom­pres­sion — and total air­craft destruc­tion.“⁴ Eep!

¹ At least, I think I do. I’ve got to get some laun­dry done first to get a bet­ter idea.
² Actu­ally, I don’t but thanks to my local bank; I can go and pay it off in install­ments. *whew*
³ One of the few TV shows that makes me glad I’ve got cable TV.
⁴ SPOILER: For the record, a bul­let won’t do it. It took a shaped explo­sive charge to do any sig­nif­cant amount of dam­age to the plane, but even then Buster was still in the plane (though the roof of the plane was gone from that sec­tion). This episode was very slightly reas­sur­ing in that it takes quite a bit to really dam­age a plane, but still dis­turb­ing given my lack of flight experience.

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