Up Up & Away Today

Okay. So I am about to travel west to get east. I will catch an airplane at Logan Airport in Boston this morning (Sunday) at 8:30 a.m., landing in San Francisco at 11:30 a.m. after flying for about six hours. Then tomorrow (Monday) the JFMA group will leave San Francisco at 1:30 p.m. and arrive at Narita Airport in Tokyo at about 4:30 p.m,, but it will be Tuesday, October 3 already! We cross the International Dateline in the Pacific, where the date is suddenly the next day! So Japan is well "ahead" of us, a fact I can understand better if I think about traveling east, over the Atlantic Ocean where the sun comes up and time comes earlier, and arriving in Japan that way. Confused? Get a globe... I need one!

I am very, very excited, as you can imagine, and I hope you will peek at this blog now and again to follow my travels!