One way ticket to Tokyo

Ok, so the time is creeping up to when I fly into Tokyo, Japan with a backpack, 3 days booked in a capsule, and a scared optimistic outlook.

I already have the feeling of leaving something behind and I haven't left yet, this cannot be a good sign. I have recently been trying to work on an itinerary. Thinking that with planning, then execution of said plan I will be less nervous. But this has led me to the belief that I cannot plan further than one city, as I regress back to the child in the candy store with a dollar buying a huge assortment of 1c & 2c lollies. With so many choices and the ability to change my mind on a whim, I will try and be like the true nomad and go where the travel gods inspire.

I've been to the doctor more in the last three weeks than in my whole life with vaccinations, blood test (twice! Damned stand-in doctor), dentist (twice again!), skin cancer check, oh and also lots of x-rays because a 'stand in' doctor believed I had arthritis in the spine (not true by the way). My backpack was also the wrong size and had to change it. It would have been a painful trip had I not noticed and read up on it. I got more of a trekking backpack this time also, because I... like...umm, trek a lot?? Well, I'll soon know as I am planning on trekking the Himalayas! Something easy to start on I've got a lot of gadgets and bits and pieces which I'll post up tomorrow if I get to it.
But I thought I'd show you one piece of essential traveling equipment. Reefs bottle opening thongs!

As far as where I am going, this is the plan. But as I said this is going to be a work in progress:

Japan->Sth Korea->China->Mongolia->(China again maybe) India->Nepal->Bhutan->Sri Lanka->Vietnam->Laos->Cambodia->Thailand->Australia

That's the plan but the way money has been leaving my account, maybe not even half of it will eventuate. It is perhaps because of this that I have stopped looking at real hotels and only look at cheap hostels. Even past the single rooms and into the 8 dorm shares (This goes against every fiber of my being, but I might as well plunge head-on in and get used to it).

So, I definitely would like more time to plan, but would that ever end. Sometimes I guess you just have to do what feels right. A lot of people talk of travel opening them up, broadening thinking etc. I feel that I live this way already to an extent but I'm open to being sorely wrong and changed for life.

S.

P.S. There is no auto editing software etc, so you will just have to bear this as a grammar free zone :-)
Also, if you want to see A LOT more pictures... just check out the gallery for ones not put in the blog posts. Link here https://www.travellerspoint.com/photos/gallery/users/CrackerjackHobo/