{"id":10150,"date":"2019-11-18T10:21:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T18:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=10150"},"modified":"2022-10-13T13:47:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T20:47:04","slug":"japan-day-73-back-to-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=10150","title":{"rendered":"Japan Day 73: Back to Portland!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn\u2019t sleep that well, and it wasn\u2019t due to all the beer I had. I had tiny beers. Probably some apprehension about FINALLY GOING HOME after 73 days here. I started packing and it was mostly a lot of flailing. And then just piling things in and making sure the suitcase shut, which it did. Then it was off to Pronto for my last morning set for a while.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10152\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5606-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5606-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5606-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5606-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5606-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5606-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5606-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And then it was downstairs for a 10:15am bus to the airport. Lots of opportunity for napping, but I didn\u2019t take much of it. The leftmost suitcase and the leftmost purple duffel, are mine after 2 \u00bd months. The middle suitcase, and the red duffel, are my sister\u2019s after two weeks. Sadie, who was there for five days, has that giant suitcase and we also had to go get her that Nike duffel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10153\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5607-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5607-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5607-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5607-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5607-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5607-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5607-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of course, we went back to Fujiya for our outgoing lunch. Lots of food on my plate and I wasn\u2019t that hungry. I finished the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10154\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5608-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5608-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5608-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5608-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5608-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5608-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_5608-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s about it. I\u2019m back home and I finally remembered to upload the last few photos. I\u2019ve been trying to dig my way out of two and a half months of mail (mostly recycling, but not all). I had to sort a bunch of ham radio cards and now that I think of it I have to sign up for some more volunteer stuff. I already spent an hour and a half with banking.\u00a0I better make a list.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10151\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/a-IMG_4702-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/a-IMG_4702-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/a-IMG_4702-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/a-IMG_4702-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/a-IMG_4702-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/a-IMG_4702.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn\u2019t sleep that well, and it wasn\u2019t due to all the beer I had. I had tiny beers. Probably some apprehension about FINALLY GOING HOME after 73 days here. I started packing and it was mostly a lot of flailing. And then just piling things in and making sure the suitcase shut, which it did. Then it was off to Pronto for my last morning set for a while. And then it was downstairs for a 10:15am bus to the airport. Lots of opportunity for napping, but I didn\u2019t take much of it. The leftmost suitcase and the leftmost purple duffel, are mine after 2 \u00bd months. The middle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=10150\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japan Day 73: Back to Portland!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10278,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10150\/revisions\/10278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}