Leaving on a jet plane.

Just a quick update as I sit here in the free internet cafe at Narita airport.

Yep, folks I am on the road again, heading back to Thailand for a bit to decide the next destination. Japan has been great but I know that if I can help this is not the place that I want to spend a year working. There a few reasons why, things like the language barrier and differnces in culture are there, but not something that is impossible to work around - all in all it gets quite easy staying in Japan after a while. The subway is easy enough to work out and once you break through the initial barrier of being lost in a land of foreign sites and sounds you will learn which dishes you like and which ones to avoid. Just on this subject, if you are coming to Japan avoid Natto at all costs. I was lucky enough to have had suffiient warnings froms friends that this is a no go zone. Natto is a traditional Japanese breakfast which is rice, sushi and fermented bean curd. It is stired together until it resemblems a kind of clear ectoplasm seen Ghostbusters.

Well, I think my decision to leave Japan is based in part of the work ethic here which is very high, and I was wary of falling back into a very full on job again. While I know that in China the work load may not be much differnt, but I think that over all the approach to it will be differnt. I know that China will be really hard in terms of language as well the lack of modern convenience, but ultimately I feel that these (and all the other yet seen challenges) will make the experience much more rewarding. (Hmmm, that has the ring of a classic set of famour last words).

I am also thinking that I may head to India for a while if I decide that I don't want to work just yet, while heading back to Thailand might give me the chance to go to Ankor Wat before making any final decisions. There is also the possiblity as Europe starts to warm up, of head north n the Trans-Siberian Express and hanging out in Scandanvia for a while. A friend wants to meet up for the Roskilde Festival in few months. So who knows; I could even end up at Burning Man. I guess things will become more solid over the next few weeks.Any way better go, want to grab a bite to eat before the plane. Hmmm, Natto!