The Reluctant Traveler
...written on 08.14.02, @ 12:49 a.m.
Wed August 14, 2002
Sometimes I like to procrastinate . . .
Hee.
Maybe that's what I am doing now. Tomorrow I leave for Hiroshima for 11 days (5 days vacation and 6 days teaching workshop). I haven't packed yet, but I have cleaned out my futon/craft supply closet and categorized my loose music MDs and made substantial piles of teaching and training material that I have to dive into when I get back.
My Japanese teacher is coming over later today to help me mail my suitcase on to Hiroshima. I will be taking the Shinkansen (bullet train) and we all know that savvy travelers send their luggage ahead via Japanese transport companies, don't we? Verrry convenient.
I think I will feel like an electronics store, as I am taking my computer, my new camera, my md recorder, my cellphone and all of the battery chargers etc. that go along with them.
Seventeen years ago, I was in Hiroshima on Aug 6, for the 40th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb. I'm curious to see how things have changed. I hear they have added things to the museum since then. My hotel is right on the Peace Park so it will be easy to get to. I'll post pictures when I get back.
I'll also be meeting an old college buddy down there. He has been here for almost 18 years. We met in a bioscience laboratory at our college in Dayton, Oh. He was the PR agent for a paraplegic woman who was participating in research to enable her to walk again.
Mark and I also traveled to China together in a group of pioneer student ambassadors from our university. Our first stop was Hong Kong, where I immediately got sick, and then was plagued with ill health throughout the one month journey. Mark literally carried me off a few planes and through some airports. It will be good seeing him again and gnoshing over old memories.