NC86 wrote:
>> I don't do it because I feel it is important, nor do I measure the
>> strangeness of my actions by the standard of the Average Japanese
>> person. I do it because I enjoy it, pure and simple. I'm American
>> and one of my most memorable vacations was a 6 week driving tour of
>> the United States that my wife and I did about 4 years ago. And the
>> fact that you may have no interest in seeing Japan, Australia or
>> wherever gives me no distress whatsoever.
>
> And yet you choose to live in Tokyo for the 46 weeks a year that you
> aren't on holidays. There's nothing wrong with wanting to spend 4
> weeks there on my limited budget.
>
> I need to focus on daily life, I can't afford to be touring around any
> country for 6 weeks.

I'm one of the ones in favor of you coming to Tokyo. The bit about traveling
out of Tokyo was in response to a comment about the ease of visiting Tokyo
from the countryside and vice versa.

Jeff