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On The Go – Day 6
Strictly speaking today is supposed to be traveling day. And strictly speaking on a travelling day we typically don’t do too much because we’re traveling. I guess I should clarify. Yes we’re on vacation. And yes vacation is in fact traveling all the time, unless it’s a stay-cation which involves not going anywhere, which is not what we’re doing in Japan. When I say a “travelling day” in articles about our vacation, it refers to that day in the vacation where we are physically traveling from one main location to another main location. This usually involves getting up early to catch a specific train that will take us to another…
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On The Go – Day 5
We both seem to have the same problem on this vacation where we are suffering from some kind of ‘time shift’. I realize that Japan is 15 hours ahead of Chicago which is confusing enough. And I understand the whole jet lag thing. No in this case it’s probably the whole ‘I’m excited to be on vacation’ thing. Amelia is used to getting up at around 4:00 am. She goes to the gym every morning and then does her prep and heads out to work. For her she is usually asleep by 8:00 pm. For me, I’m usually up by 5:00 AM every Monday – Friday because I normally like…
