Thinking of Far off Japan

Friends and Family,

As most of you know Amber and I will be taking off for Japan on Wednesday. We fly from Sioux Falls to Denver, to San Francisco, to Osaka, Japan. We will try and post tales of our travels and pictures at the same site we used for our Europe blog. Its available at:

http://www.tripacrossthepond.blogspot.com/

It is unclear how often we will be able to update that site as information about Internet access is difficult to come by. We will also try and check our email if possible and maybe phone you with Skype. We will be 14 hours ahead of central time. i.e. if it is 4 P.M. in Omaha it is 6 A.M. in Osaka or Okinawa. You can check out our photos at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonathanandamber/

If there is an emergency you can try and contact us by mobile phone at +81-90-1721-0494. You could also try to email the phone at rent0494@softbank.ne.jp . I'm not sure how much this would cost us though, so use sparingly ;-). We're excited to do some traveling again. Amber wanted to have Brod along, but I convinced her the mission is more important. Its a good thing we're not flying through Fresno.

Sayonara,

Jonathan & Amber

p.s. I took the picture above of Amber at a Sushi bar in Portland last year. Can't you tell she loves sushi?