The Long Road to Okinawa (Part 2)
I’ve done a few long international trips over the years and never felt the effects of the dreaded jet-lag, so I figure maybe I was immune to it. WRONG! The first few days in Tokyo were a hellish time warp, as I repeatedly bolted awake in the middle of the night and was begging for sleep by mid-afternoon. Luckily, I could nap as I pleased since we were stuck in quarantine for two weeks…
The Long Road to Okinawa (Part 1)
After over a year of speculating, planning, and paperwork, culminating in a long-ass flight (all in the face of COVID, no less) we finally arrived in Japan! What started with an email from Courtney to a researcher at OIST in November 2019 got us to where we are today - looking out of our apartment window at the brilliant blue waters of the East China Sea…