{"id":92,"date":"2012-11-05T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2016-02-28T00:06:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T00:06:27","slug":"day-1-november-1-2-no-kamchatka-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2012\/11\/05\/day-1-november-1-2-no-kamchatka-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 1, November 1-2: No Kamchatka, after all&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some initial scattered thoughts:<\/p>\n<p>After a mid-flight diversion starting in Alaska, we ended up not flying over Russian airspace.  Hope it has nothing to do with Sakhalin.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, I didn`t see the Bond flick in the movie listings.  Also, it`s difficult to watch things when the headphone jack only half works.  But kudos to Air Canada.  Food was good (we even got cup noodles as a snack!), and people were pleasant.<\/p>\n<p>Finally got down to starting to really plan my part of the trip about 1\/3rd of the way into our flight.  i5 seems to hold a charge much better in airplane mode (esp. compared to the 3G).  Looking forward to exploring neighbourhoods, especially Ikebukuro (\u3044\u3051\u3075\u309b\u304f\u308d).<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to relaxing.<\/p>\n<p>Question\uff1aIs there anythingleft unanthropomorphized in Japan?  (I might not be usefully able to anthropomorphize anything&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Things I learned on the express train from Narita to Shinjuku:\u3000I can recognize Japanes, Mandarin, and Korean independantly.  (In this particular case, -ida is a giveaway for Korean, and there was a &#8220;Ni hao&#8221;.)<\/p>\n<p>Japan is pleasant.  North America is not.  More lazily constructed functional.  So many people ready to help at Narita -> train station.  Trains exactly on time&#8230;like an iPhone, but everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>-Nayrb \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some initial scattered thoughts: After a mid-flight diversion starting in Alaska, we ended up not flying over Russian airspace. Hope it has nothing to do with Sakhalin. For some reason, I didn`t see the Bond flick in the movie listings. Also, it`s difficult to watch things when the headphone jack only half works. But kudos &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2012\/11\/05\/day-1-november-1-2-no-kamchatka-after-all\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Day 1, November 1-2: No Kamchatka, after all&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}