Day 18 : 6 Month Anniversary

Today is the 6 Month Anniversary of our move to Japan from Canada. It seems like just yesterday we were all excited and in a rush to sell off all of our useless "stuff" that we had accumulated while living in St John's. It seems that is was just yesterday that we were saying goodbye to our good friends we had met over the years. Then like a wave our migration across the planet was underway, first stop was New York City. We had a great time and I got to meet up with an old friend Hector for a nice brunch in Greenwich Village.

Then from there it was off to Mexico City or DF as it is commonly known. Back again in the monster city that I love. My Spanish was still holding up which was surprising since i hadn't really used it in a whole year. It was like living in a sense of Deja Vu, same hotel on Avenida de Reforma, same sights, smell and sounds. We had spent 5 months in Mexico the year before. It was all so similar, but this time the throngs of protesters that had camped out on the Reforma had disappeared, vowing to continue the struggle from their homes and respective villages.

From DF it was off to Veracruz, also another overwhelming sense of Deja Vu as this is where I spent the bulk of my time the year before. same beaches, restaurants, food and people. Was like having a second serving of a perfect Arrachera Steak. When all the partying and fun was completed then it was off on our migration to the land of the Rising Sun. Veracruz by bus to DF. Spent the last day in Df wandering around Zona Rosa contemplating how different Japan was going to be to Mexico.

From DF it was off to LA, there we had a short stopover, some usual hassling by TSA officials and then on to our 14 1/2 flight across the Pacific. After what seemed to be a lifetime in a torture chair we finally arrived in Taipei, the first footstep in our adventure in the East. From Taipei it was a short hop off to Osaka, and we had finally arrived in our new homes for the adventure of living and making it in Japan.

So much has happened here in Japan since then that it will be put in other posts to this blog, but it puts a lot in perspective, we went from a view of the harbor in St John's to the view in the picture above in 6 Months.