and over here a double means a wide-single. There's no way you can avoid touching

Yes, honestly when I walked into my hotel room I was stunned at how small it was. I was fairly prepared for a small room, but the entire thing including bathroom and entry hall was smaller than my bedroom in my SMALL condo (by US standards). But you get used to it quickly. Not that bad. Especially since mainly all you'll be doing in the room is sleeping, and toilet/shower duty.

 

Sasha can crash with me if she wants. But Luke & Sasha be warned that I may snore and/ or fart in my sleep. I'm nothing but class!

Edit: I'll bring my breathrite strips and avoid beans.

Sasha can crash with me if she wants. But Luke & Sasha be warned that I may snore and/ or fart in my sleep. I'm nothing but class!

Edit: I'll bring my breathrite strips and avoid beans.

Hopefully I'll be on a different floor.

That's Kyle smooth-talk for "don't worry baby, you can crash with me"

I'm buying my ticket tomorrow.  I just have to put the cash people donated to me over the last two days in my bank account.  I raised $1060 in the last two days for the trip!  Then I am going to get my passport on Friday.  I have to get a new one which is kind of a bummer.

PS- Trick, I sleep walk so don't feel too bad.  If you find me squatting in a closet over a waste paper basket assuming it's the bathroom, just know I'm not doing it on purpose....

I should have 2 passports.

Gonna go for a third when I'm in Europe, and maybe a fourth.

Never can have too many passports.

I was just looking at the Subway station map and I think it's easy to read.  I believe the train you take from the airport to the Hotel Gracery is the Yokosuka line.  Is that right?

pretty much, it's the Sobu-Rapid from Narita-Tokyo and then the Yokosuka line the rest of the way. You'll be getting an express train on that - your JR pass will cover it.

yes, there's more things to purchase in the US (but not until September).
We'll need to pick up Japan Rail pass vouchers, which we will redeem in Japan, so that we can ride everywhere for free!
...after an initial $300 investment.
......which is apparently regained on just a few train rides anywhere.

$70 in trains <> Narita.
$220 in trains <> Hiroshima

Ergo, anything else you ride during the week is on the house!

Luke, is there anywhere in Austin we can buy the passes at? I think Ian posted that you could get one in Houston, but I don't live in Houston!

Check with a local travel consultant

Luke, is there anywhere in Austin we can buy the passes at? I think Ian posted that you could get one in Houston, but I don't live in Houston!

No place in Austin, that I know.
You order them online from Houston, and they ship to you.
But the vouchers are only good for 3 months, so you MUST wait until we're closer to the trip itself.

MUST wait until we're closer to the trip itself.

tease?

note, i'm buying EVERYTHING that we've discussed, but not until August & September.

What have you discussed buying?

we have a lot of excelent threads in this "Japan 2009" forum that answer that exact question.