The Trip So Far

One of my "travel laws" is that the more money you spend the greater the barrier between you and the place you are visiting.

I only somewhat feel like I am in a foreign country and I really don't feel like much at all like I am in Japan.

We flew first class (on United, which meant it was crappy first class, worse than Biz class on Singapore or Cathay Pacific) and we are staying at the Westin Tokyo in an Executive level set of rooms. Breakfast is an international buffet, so we eat American (with the exception of including broccoli on the plate) We hop in a taxi and ride over to the Motorola building. The only indicator of foreign-ness is the translator and we had one of those in San Diego in November so that's not too exotic either.

In other words, the barrier is very very high. I expect the weekend to bring the barrier down for a while; we are going to finally do some exploring of the town.

Today's meetings are the tough ones; we meet our customer and give them the "bad news" regarding the schedule slips and other stuff. Our Dear Leader will earn his salary today.