Today's plan was to stay a bit closer to home and explore more of north Tokyo. We didn't plan to get up so early, but we are not yet used to the time difference and were up very early again. We made our typical walk through Ueno Park (past all the joggers) to the Ueno station. We bought tickets to take the subway over one stop to Asakusa to check out the very famous Senso-ji Temple complex. The word on the street is this is Tokyo's most spectacular temple, and ...

Our first day to explore the metropolis of Tokyo! Being completely jet lagged, we woke up 4am. This was perfect as we wanted to go to the Tsukiji Fish Market very early to see the fish action. We realized that we were probably already too late to see the auctions which occur at 5am and apparently tourists start lining up at 2am to get one of the coveted 120 spots available. There was no way we were going to try and get there that early! It was a cold but crysta...

Had a pleasant flight to Narita. Both Craig and Efren were in business class, so that was nice. We were on separate flights, however, but they arrived within a few minutes of each other. Craig arrived first and had no problems with customs or immigration (despite fretting over bringing medication into Japan). Bag showed up right away and headed up to the arrivals lounge to wait for Efren. While waiting for Efren a suspicious package was left in the arrivals lou...

Day 1 At a few minutes after 7am our shuttle bus arrived to pick us up at the Pavilion Hotel to bring us to our bus. It finally deposited us next to the "luxury" bus departing at 7:30 after first picking up passengers all over Phnom Penh. The ride to Siem Reap was slow and it took us about 7 hours. We got to see some of the Cambodian countryside en route. The bus was far from a luxury limosousine but was comfortable enough. At the dusty Siem Reap bus station we ...

Day 1 Our taxi to the Krabi airport arrived at 7:30, and soon we were at the small but modern Krabi airport. Our Thai Airways flight to Bangkok departed on time at 10 am, and the upgrade to business class was a nice touch. At the Bangkok airport we got our Air France boarding pass and had time to grab some soup. Craig's stomach was acting up a bit so he watched Efren slurp down the soup. The 1 hour flight to Phnom Penh departed on time, and the flight was near...