track our trek

after much debate and following the weather, we’ve decided to stick with our original plan to take the ferry from japan to south korea. a typhoon delayed our boat trip by a day & we toyed with the idea of getting a cheap flight from tokyo to seoul, but how often do you get to take a boat from japan to korea? we thought we’d be saving ourselves a night’s hotel fare by taking the overnight boat, but it turns out the boat we’ve reserved is a high-speed boat & only takes 5 ½ hours to get to busan. (there are several ferries leaving from several ports, including hakata, hiroshima, and shimenoseki…some are slow boats that take 8-14 hours.) so we took the shinkansen for 3 hours, and now we are in hakata for the night, doing a bit of laundry, & waiting for our boat to take off at noon tomorrow. we’re also hanging out in the lobby of our very shady hotel, avoiding going upstairs to our dank twin room…time to break out those sleep sheets of ours… dp killed a roach as soon as we turned on the lights! (needless to say we’ve left the lights on up there)…sigh…i suspect japan has given us a very gentle introduction to backpacking thus far…