AWASA BAY APT. C, OKINAWA CITY -- Just checked the blog for the first time in a week. Glad to see the Roadtrip was a success. Sorry about the roommate Skip. Louie your ipod sold for $230 or so.
Anyways, I'm chillin in an apartment across the street from the Pacific right now. No beaches but lots of reefs to go snorkeling in, hopefully soon once the weather clears. The flight over here was OK, except that I was traveling for 24 hours straight with only a little sleep. I had to fly from Pitt to Chicago, Chicago to Tokyo Narita, take an hour bus to Tokyo Haneda, then another plane from Tokyo to Okinawa. I met a vietnamese kid from wisconsin going to visit family and an american guy who teaches english in a small town in the "kansas of Japan" where he met and married his wife.
It's rained the last two days so I haven't done too much. I got a tour of the huge Kadena Air base, saw some F-16s in their hangars, some trucks with tomahawk cruise missile launchers, and watched Harriers take off. Last night we ate at one of those sushi places that has a conveyer belt with plates of different sushi going around. I didn't try anything exotic yet, except for Parrotfish, but it tasted kind of bland. Earlier today I went for a walk through this big park nearby. It has all these walking and biking trails through it, a small waterpark, playground, etc, and this small hill that has all these tombs or shrines or something all around it in the jungle. But because of the rain it is ungodly humid out right now, I've never experienced anything like it. I was just standing still looking around and I was sweating and soaking through my shirt.
But the one thing I've come to realize so far on this trip is that Japanese people are strange.
More updates to come next week.
-Per
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