There was one time I was at a gathering at a friend’s house and there was this guy there, a friend of the friend, who I had only met in passing and maybe only exchanged a couple words with up until that point. I noticed at this party though that he was wearing a somewhat obscure shirt – it was labeled “Zushi Beach”, which is a beach in Japan close to my grandmother’s house. I remember thinking that awfully random and explicitly blurting out, “WHY ARE YOU WEARING THAT SHIRT?” to which he of course cleverly replied “um, because it’s my shirt?”

The important thing about this story is not how awkward Adrienne is at starting conversations or forming reasonable questions, but that that one shirt started an entire conversation about Japan, about how I visited almost yearly, about how despite not being Japanese he’s been 5 times, about climbing Mount Fuji (AKA MORDOR, DON’T DO IT, IT’S AWFUL), about different cities there, about travel in general, about lots of things two people have in common that they had no idea about.

And now two years later, this boy {who has since been promoted to boyfriend} and I are going to visit this place that is special for each of us separately, for the first time together. We will be visiting my family in Yokohama, and the plan is to head south and end up in Fukuoka, eating ramen & okonomiyaki & katsu & sushi & 7-11 & Dennys (IF YOU KNOW YOU KNOW) on the way. I am crossing my fingers that the cherry blossoms are still in bloom (anyone in Tokyo care to confirm?) and planning on posting our adventures all over instagram, so be sure to follow along!

I’ll be doing my best to check email but will be back in the office on 4/22 and will definitely return all correspondence then. Thank you for your understanding!

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