I just realized how stupid this is. I was supposed to log my travel adventures as they happen, not a week after the fact. Anyway, I’m sitting at the airport in Taiwan waiting for my flight back to SF (a.k.a. home…sweet home). I figure I’ll tap out a few paragraphs before the booze takes effect.

Japan Day 2: 5/1/08
The second day is when the real adventures began. Thanks to the rotation of the Earth relative to our sun, I woke up at about 5am and opened the shutters. Then I freaked out because it was so bright. I checked my watch and my Treo (alarm clock) and both had the same time, so I figured that I set my clocks wrong. Then I checked the clock that came with the hotel room and it said the same time. Then it dawned on me (pun brought to you by a dishwashing detergent company): Japan doesn’t celebrate daylight savings time.

The hotel served breakfast at 7am, so I rolled around in my ultra-compact quarters until then. Breakfast consisted of bread-like material, egg-like material, vegetation, orange juice-like fluids and coffee. Oh, and croissants. Gotta have those. I made my way through breakfast enjoying the view of a still-dormant Tokyo and then I made my way to the train station again. Today, I would get to use my 2-day Tokyo Metro subway pass. I did. Except I took a Toei subway line to the “closest” Tokyo Metro transfer station. At that station, I walked 420m (that’s what the sign said) to the Tokyo Metro line and hopped on the subway.

And now it’s time to get on the plane…