SAPPORO!

No Blackberry No Cell phones still. This posted from the room in the airport hotel.

Had a fine flight over to Sapporo, good weather gave us a look at the land (islands) as we flew North over much of Japan to the Northern end where we landed at this beautiful airport. Checked in to the airport hotel, everything in the room is in miniature, interesting. Beautiful mountains in the distance. Customs took about 90 minutes.

The boys were restless so we, finding no one to speak English, somehow bought train tickets to downtown (40minutes) and then tried to find a good "kobe beef restaurant." Everyone just smiled. We finally walked in to a nice looking place and were served a lovely meal by wonderful people. Turned out it was a crab restaurant. You could have crab about 100 ways, but crab was what they served. We had crab about 12 ways and every one left happy. The ones that had the saki might have left happier than the others. We cabbed back- 45 minutes for $10!

It is 0530, rain is coming but it looks light. We are off to Russia for fuel, on to Nome for fuel and customs and then to Anchorage. We should arrive in there about 8-9AM eastern time tomorrow morning. Bob