Thirteenth Day in Japan. Travelling home.

Travel Blog 1 Minute

We got up this morning and took the subway to the Imperial Palace. We didn’t tour the palace. Instead, we walked around the gardens.

Outer moat around the Imperial Palace.
Iris garden.
This garden is so well tended.
Koi in a pond.
As green as Ireland.
This is the inner moat.
Dana is an expert in getting upgrades on United. A couple of days ago she used some of her miles to upgrade to Polaris. She offered me her Polaris seat. That was super thoughtful and generous but I declined. I told her I was more than happy flying in the steerage section of the plane. She offered to help me put in a bid to upgrade to Polaris but I told her that I was fine flying economy. The bid got down to 30,000 miles, about $360 and Dana helped me pull the trigger. No way was United going to accept such a low bid on a Polaris seat that a week ago they were offering for $6,000. To my surprise, yesterday afternoon United accepted my bid and now I have a fully reclining seat in the Polaris section of the flight back to Denver and access to the United Club lounge. Thank you Dana.
This is the gratis fully stocked bar and buffet in the United Club! I can hear my dear old Dad saying: “Son, you are farting through silk now!”
I am on the plane.
My seat.
Champagne. I need to lose the spare tire.

That’s it from the airport in Tokyo. I will upload a postscript to this blog post after I land in Denver.

We were thirty minutes late departing from Tokyo but we landed thirty minutes early in Denver.

It is good to be back home.

I hope you are having a great day wherever you are.

Unknown's avatar

Published by abeandmarkonthecamino

I've been retired from the Union Pacific Railroad since 2017. I've been planning to walk the Camino for about 6 months and can't wait to get started.

Published

Leave a comment