December 19-27 We happily write this post from the comfort of the Pacific Time Zone! Apologies for the delay--it took us longer than expected to get our bodies over the jet lag. While we can't believe this trip is over, we are so proud of ourselves for completing the journey, and very happy to be back home for a while. The plan was always to try to find a way to fly home from Tokyo, though by the beginning of December we didn't know how long we would actually be able to affor

December 17-19 We only had about 48 hours in Kyoto, and during that time we took almost 40,000 steps. We were warned that Kyoto wasn't a very walkable city, but we tried our darndest anyway. We saw a lot of amazing things. And now my feet hurt. We took the train from Osaka on Wednesday morning. Kyoto and Osaka are very close to each other, so we essentially jumped on a commuter train, similar to the Sounder back home. By the time we got on, it was standing room only, but we f