Musings about my trip to Japan
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So we leave for Japan tomorrow. My husband is staying home and caring for all of the animals. I'm going with my parents and we'll be there for three weeks.
Last week (Feb 23rd, the day before my birthday) was the 4th anniversary of the day we brought home Gryphon, our American Akita. In the past four years, I think I have been away from my dogs for a total of 5-7 days. Every day, even when I am not in the same room or building with them, I am thinking about them and looking up stuff about them online. I am at my computer 14+ hours a day usually. So its going to be very strange for me, not just being away from the computer for so long, but being without my keeters. I am going to miss them terribly. I find it ironic that to go on a trip focused around the Akita, I have to be without my own.
With less than 24 hours to go, I wish I could explain to my dogs that I am going away but that I will be back. I wish I could warn them that there will be a new pack member in a few weeks. I wish I could tell my new pup that her whole life is about to turn upside down, but that it will all be okay.
Due to the schedule of our friend in Chiba, we had to cut short the time we spend in the Tohoku region. I had originally tried to get us four whole days in the area with a half day on either end for travel. Its been whittled down to only one whole day, with travel the evening before and a half day plus travel after. Part of this was because the big tourism groups don't seem to have anything in the area, so all the tours we booked in advance were in the south/west. But there are a lot of castles, shrines, lakes, mountains, national parks, caves, hot springs, waterfalls, and other awesome natural and old/traditional things we want to see out there. My mom said we might do Japan again in 1 or 2 years so we can do more in Tohoku and get to climb Fuji (only available in the summer).
It would be good to go at a different time of the year so there's other tours and events offered. If I go again, I'd like to see the AKIHO headquarter show. But I'd really like to have a US Tokuyu dog participating in that show...
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So we leave for Japan tomorrow. My husband is staying home and caring for all of the animals. I'm going with my parents and we'll be there for three weeks.
Last week (Feb 23rd, the day before my birthday) was the 4th anniversary of the day we brought home Gryphon, our American Akita. In the past four years, I think I have been away from my dogs for a total of 5-7 days. Every day, even when I am not in the same room or building with them, I am thinking about them and looking up stuff about them online. I am at my computer 14+ hours a day usually. So its going to be very strange for me, not just being away from the computer for so long, but being without my keeters. I am going to miss them terribly. I find it ironic that to go on a trip focused around the Akita, I have to be without my own.
With less than 24 hours to go, I wish I could explain to my dogs that I am going away but that I will be back. I wish I could warn them that there will be a new pack member in a few weeks. I wish I could tell my new pup that her whole life is about to turn upside down, but that it will all be okay.
Due to the schedule of our friend in Chiba, we had to cut short the time we spend in the Tohoku region. I had originally tried to get us four whole days in the area with a half day on either end for travel. Its been whittled down to only one whole day, with travel the evening before and a half day plus travel after. Part of this was because the big tourism groups don't seem to have anything in the area, so all the tours we booked in advance were in the south/west. But there are a lot of castles, shrines, lakes, mountains, national parks, caves, hot springs, waterfalls, and other awesome natural and old/traditional things we want to see out there. My mom said we might do Japan again in 1 or 2 years so we can do more in Tohoku and get to climb Fuji (only available in the summer).
It would be good to go at a different time of the year so there's other tours and events offered. If I go again, I'd like to see the AKIHO headquarter show. But I'd really like to have a US Tokuyu dog participating in that show...
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Comments
I hope all goes well with your new pup and that your old pups don't freeze you out for leaving them (my x-roomie's KBD did that).
Looking forwards to LOADS of pictures and stories
@ttddinh I shall eat *moderate* amount of yummy food... as I am on a diet, lol.
I remember leaving Toki for a week and a half when he went to cali/me to NM. I wondered if he thought carol and jim's home was his life from that point on since he had been there so long. I missed him terribly. But he was super over-the-top excited to see me when we picked him up and it made it all better
Quakes don't scare me at all, I am from California.