Blast Off!

In about ten hours, I'll be traveling to Japan. Honestly, I still can't believe it. I bought these tickets back in May. September 20th seemed like ages away. It's been kind of a bumpy road to this day, but I survived, and everything ended up okay in the end, anyway.

My last full day in my hometown started with me with Novocaine numbing my mouth as part of a routine procedure to take care of something insignificant. Not how I'd expect my last full day to go. After that, I pretty much spent most of the day packing and finding out that my parents are going to have to mail me quite a bit of clothes. I also emptied my wallet of things like Borders and Best Buy and Boloco Burrito rewards cards, as well as a metric ton of receipts and coupons ranging over the past year. Luckily, my old Suica card can remain standing.

After watching the Jets beat the Patriots, I had the last meal with my family at a Mexican restaurant. In the past, the night before I left the country, I'd often eat with my family at an American restaurant to eat a giant cheeseburger or something. But this year, I decided, "Hey, Japan at least has restaurants serving American food, but one thing they don't have AT ALL are Mexican restaurants." The two times I've gone to Japan before, I can't recall seeing any places that serve burritos. Which is a damn shame because I LOVE BURRITOS. If anyone reading out there knows of any place in Japan that serves burritos, please let me know in the comments below.

Anyway, I'm ready for this trip tomorrow, I've loaded my Philips GoGear Spark with Weezer, Pavement and Local H. I've packed John Steinbeck's "Travels With Charley" for reading material. I even brought a few DVDs along for my laptop. All that's left to do is... Blast Off!