We're off!

Adam here.

We're in Portland, waiting for the regional jet up to Vancouver--from where our flight to Narita leaves later this afternoon. Just had a crappy airport breakfast with Bob and Steve. (Steve's already feeling adventurours, foodwise. He had some kind of organic "Super Food" drink, that tasted of slightly of banana and felt like thin mud on the tongue.) They're at the gate, but I decided to duck out for a half hour to the "business center" to take advantage of the airport's wi-fi. I'm doing very important business here...checking e-mail and listening to Weird Al on my laptop. Yup. I'm a very important person. I'm a doctor, you know. :)

Hopefully everything will go well on the trip. I'm just getting over a bacterial infection in my lungs, and I have no idea how that will impact the climb. Ironically, Bob might have the best chance of making it to the top of Fuji--after all, he lives at a much higher altitude than Steve and I. Vamos a ver...or however you say that in Nihongo.