Aomori, Japan

Aomori, Japan on a beautiful fall day. We are heading north again so the temperature is dropping, the trees are changing color and it gets dark at 5:00!!

We saw a traditional musical show today and then walked the grounds of a castle, They moved the castle several times to work on it - I know it sounds crazy, but it’s true.

There is also a huge active volcano here. Somehow it always feels unnerving. We continually hear about Shogun in a the excursions so it seems like something we should watch to put all the pieces together of what we’ve learned the past couple of weeks.

We’re starting to feel a bit saturated with information and will need to have some time to properly process everything we’ve seen.

We have one more stop tomorrow in Hakodate, which we visited on the way down from the Aleutian’s so that will be my signing off point.

We are busy getting all of our clothes laundered
(free laundry!) so we can pack clean clothes to take home. We have a couple of special momentos to bring home and Jeff has collected dozens of the chocolates that they leave us each night and he’s hidden them in his underwear drawer (not sure what his plan is there).

It sounds like we are coming home to fall weather so these cooler temperatures are easing us into that.Read more