Shew, what a trip. One of those “need a vacation from my vacation” trips, big time.

I got back in on Friday night and I’m slowly returning to normal after a 15 hour time change and 24 solid hours of traveling by foot, train, plane, and car. People, I am tired. And it was awesome. I have a ton of pictures and stories to share over the next couple of weeks, but being the wiener I am, I’m gonna draaaaaaaaaw it out. Because I can. I also missed Rob a ton so I’m going to spend time cuddling with him while I whine about how tired I am and battle a little bit of altitude sickness.

For all it was an awesome trip it’s also good to be home, I can say with certainty that I don’t do too well on futons unfortunately. The food was amazing, I think I’ve been forever spoiled on sushi, and really overall it’s such a unique place to visit. It’s a trip being basically functionally illiterate as soon as you walk off the plane (this is, mind you, if you can’t read Japanese) and in my case only able to understand maybe 1 in 20 words. Still, it’s a fairly easy country to travel in. Once you get the hang of the rail system and what trains go where it’s easy to navigate, and most of the important signs alternate in English.

I think the strangest thing for me was just the sheer amount of people, especially once you get into Tokyo. People everywhere, it’s a bit of a miracle no one collides with anyone else in the middle of a busy train station or an intersection. I would think driving there would be the most annoying thing just on principle that the road is almost never clear.

Now that I’m back, I need to get back to focusing on real life things that I kind of ignored while I was gone. Changes happening with my store inspired by a lot of the things I saw in Japan, my writing which I (oops) haven’t been keeping up with despite having a coherent plot for the first time ever, ordering the parts for and building two new computers for the release of Final Fantasy XIV on September 22nd, and a couple of other cool things that I need to keep a secret for now because they might not happen.

For now, I need a nap.