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From the end of the last exciting chapter (visit from the parents), it’s been an enjoyable but speedy trip north and east to Alaska. Our last few months can be separated into three legs. The first leg was from central Honschu (the main Japanese Island) north to the tip of Hokkaido. The second was from…

Well- it’s been a while since our last blog post, and we have been savoring the experience of being in Japan. We slowly worked our way north up the west coast of Kyushu, Honschu, and now Hokkaido, through the Sea of Japan. If you’re wondering where we are on a map- it’s the left side…

There we were, with a bigger chunk of solid ground under our feet than we’d seen since leaving Baja. That chunk of ground is the southern end of the Ryukyu island chain, which extends from mainland Japan almost to Taiwan, separating the South China Sea from the Philippine Sea. For the map inclined, we made…