I am going on an adventure

Tag: adventure. Osaka

  • Onto Shikoku Japan

    I made it to Shikoku early. I was able to navigate the Osaka subway system with relative ease for only having a very basic grasp of the Japanese language.  I made it to a bus station and the bus I needed left 10 minutes after I bought my ticket. The whole process took less time…

  • Osaka, I hardly knew you

    I have a 3 hour bus ride to give another update. So, not everything went perfect. When traveling while sick, you have to prioritize your mental space. So, with all of the concentration on making sure I had meds for everything and documentation for all the meds to import them, I must have packed and…

  • Day one. Osaka

    The adventure begins. I started my journey at 3am in Jersey. A 6 am flight to Los Angeles,  then a 12.5 hour flight to Osaka. All in total 26 hours of travel, including layovers. Both flights went well. No turbulence and only a slight rocky landing on a floating island at Osaka. No new pictures,…

  • Certificate received

    I received my Yunyu Kakunin-sho, the certificate to take more than one month’s worth of medication into Japan. It is a difficult to understand process, and supposedly, you can do it all online, but for the life of me, I can not change the address portion into American. It has been stuck in Japan address…

  • Traveling while sick

    I am getting closer to my trip, but I have one more hurdle to get over. I have gastroparesis.  Which means I can not digest food like I once could. So I can not eat a lot of fruits, vegetables, and meats. I need food to be broken down as much as possible. I need to…