I booked my ticket to Japan and put it on hold for 24 hours yesterday. And today I'm not so sure anymore if I actually want to make the trip. Here's why.
It would have made a lot more sense if I was going to make a trip out of LA as well, and spent a couple of days crashing at somebody's place there before heading out to Japan. Unfortunately there's nobody in LA who I could crash with. Which would mean I would have to fly to LAX on a separate flight. Which, if delayed or cancelled would supremely fuck me over, so I would have to have an extra buffer of 10-ish hours so I could make alternative arrangements. Add 3-ish hours for the flight, and 3-ish hours to leave home before the flight, and we have me leaving home 16-18 hours before my Japan flight departs. Add the 12 hours of flight time, and the 18 hours of time I lost, and we've got 48 hours to Tokyo from the point I depart home to getting there.
So when I booked my flight departing on Wednesday, and returning next Saturday, I thought I'd be gone for 9-10 days. Nope, it'd only be 7 days, and that too by a smidge. Since it's Thanksgiving time, the tickets are extraaa pricey. 750 for the Japan trip, 300 for the LA trip, and now we're in the 1100's, which is about what would cost me if I flew out of Seattle directly. That option was always available, I didn't want to take it because that's so pricey. And now I've come to the same place.
I really really want to go to Japan, but not at such immense cost, and just for a week. There'd be barely any time to enjoy and then recover. No, the plan might have to be shifted away for later. We'll see how I'm feeling like in a while.
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