Linking Maine and Japan

Greetings to all from Tokyo.

We left from San Francisco on Monday Oct. 15th mid-day, crossed the international date line mid-flight, and it is now 10:50 p.m. in Tokyo. The flight, itself, was 9-3/4 hours. Try out the math!

I’ve been in the hotel since 6:30, had a meeting, and a college student named Eri took a few of us out to dinner at a restaurant. I brought “Wally” along. She recognized him immediately, and said “Oh, the Green Monster!” Eri even took Wally’s picture with her cell phone. We had a lovely soup served in the tea pot you see. Wally likes Japan!

The view outside my hotel window is of Tokyo Tower. Quite lit up, and just a few meters taller than the Eiffel Tower, on which it was modeled.  The tower was built in the 1950s for radio and television transmitter purposes.

I am so tired, and plan to sleep very soon. Breakfast tomorrow is at 7:15!