Sayonara, Japan...for now

There could have been no more fitting way for me to finish out the last leg of this adventure than in discovering Japan.

I never watched the show “The Amazing Race,” but this has been like the Amazing Race for one.

To think, I was sitting in my hotel room in Hong Kong late one night at the end of a particularly defeating day after abandoning my trip to Bali, and was just one mouse click away from buying a flight back home the following day. It didn’t matter what it cost. I was ready to call it quits.

As has been the case for most of this journey, I went with a spontaneous instinct and surge of adventurous spirit and pulled the trigger on a flight from Hong Kong to Osaka for the following day. In retrospect, what a wonderful decision that was.

This entire journey has been full of life lessons and has expanded me in so many unforeseen ways, but Japan is one of those places and experiences that has truly left me changed for the better and it will deeply be a part of me and the way I engage day to day life and the world moving forward.