Japan - Start

As many of you know I'm going to Japan on Monday.  It's a trip that's been planned for about nine months.  Michael is moving his boat, Milestone, away from it's current berth near Yokohama down to a new home on the Inland Sea to the west, about 500 miles away.

Milestone has four cabins and two bathrooms, together with a large living/kitchen area so we won't be roughing it too much.  Twin diesels will propel us if the wind does its usual trick of going the wrong way - a Summons tradition!

I will try and post a blog most days but it rather depends on broadband linkage out on the Pacific.  We haven't as yet decided to take the direct line across the big curve and subject ourselves to tsunamis and typhoons, or around the edge and chance the sharp rocks.  But we do have Suzuki-san with us who is a professional captain. 

I'll post photos and also map references for you if I can.  Here is a reasonable map from Google which might help you to follow along.  I'm back on April 21st.

 http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=japan&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=43.799322,69.609375&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Japan&ll=34.786739,137.680664&spn=2.851073,6.432495&t=h&z=8