Day 2 - off to Japan

It's Friday, March 20 in San Francisco and I'm all packed and ready to go to the airport and board the plane to start our three week trip to Japan. 

Because we will cross the international dateline as we go through a short layover in Manila, we will lose a day and end up in Tokyo on Sunday, March 22 - we just missed the national holiday for the Vernal (spring) Equinox, which was celebrated in Japan today (Friday, March 20) as a national holiday.

At the airport I ran into Mona, a colleague from work also heading out on sabbatical/vacation - small world ;-)