Travel to Japan - A Lesson in Limits

June 10-11 Travel to Japan. Learning My Limitations

While initially I took this photograph of the wrapper to the complimentary toothbrush in my hotel room from a perspective that “Get away from the bustle of everyday life, free your mind and body. We are pleased to share the precious moment with guests” was a lot to pin on the act of brushing your teeth, exhaustion made me realize the escape that simply falling into the routine of brushing my teeth offered tremendous relief at the end of a stressful transition.

Travel with low-vision is a challenge. Travel with low-vision in a place where I don’t know the language or the very different alphabet even more so. I was reminded the hard way last night that I cannot blithely assume I’ll be ok without doing better planning. I left the hotel to pick up a wee bit of sushi from the convenience store and told myself I would be fine so long as I just stayed basically across from the hotel. I wasn’t. Led to nearly an hour of walking around and around the same quarter-mile area trying to find the hotel entrance.