Train Ride to the Ocean

Arriving in Narita

I tried to stay asleep until the morning but it was difficult. I went to bed around 10:00 and my eyes kept opening throughout the night. Finally Mimi took a shower around 6:00 in the morning and that had us both get up. We prepared our luggage and [...]

Start in St. Louis

Began in St. Louis on American Airlines. The travel agency canceled Mimi’s ticket and we had to buy a ticket from St. Louis to Chicago.

I thought that since this would be the first time that I wasn’t flying standby since Continental that it would go without a hitch but I was wrong. Mimi [...]