The smartphone saves my backside, repeatedly

[tugrik]

Just to be honest about things: planning this trip the way I did was absolutely crazy. It was just due to a 10pm getting-crazy-cheap tickets ($350rt) to Tokyo after seeing them on a realtime twitter travel feed and a quick text approval from my boss for the time off. Then added in a Lonely Planet article on "Hokkaido Road Tripping", and boom,

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[schnee]

Yeah. Not exactly well planned or wise. Some might even call it crazy.

Some might call it that; I call it an adventure. In fact I'd go so far as to call it living. (Be careful, you might get addicted!)

What's the Shinkansen like? I often travel by train, so I'm curious.

At least it's an adventure. :)

Heh. GMTA!

[duncandahusky]

This sounds like so much fun! I admit I tend to be a Type-A traveler, preplanning everything weeks/months in advance, but a trip like this where you just wind up somewhere and...do something, sounds like a very fun experience! I'd be put off by the language barrier, but even that is part of the fun.

(The one time I've been to Japan, I initially thought I could navigate the signage and rail directions just using pattern recognition of the characters. That of course went to hell the first time I learned about hiragana, katakana, and kanji!)

[learnteach]

Fuck wisdom of the scared conventional fear monagers. You have mad skills. Keep seeing new things, traveling, doing things! Yes, you have limits. Yes, self care is needed. Yes you are wise enough to know these. Keep doing!

[zrath]

That sounds totally awesome!
Technology really is helping people do more and better!
Take lots of photos! :)

[tuftears]

Good luck out there! ^_^ Hope you don't encounter any serious problems.