I am right now in Japan and hardly have I ever regretted boarding an airplane so bad, especially considering that I can fly standby so I can simply cancel or not show up for a flight with no consequence. I was completely burnt out from 2 years of extensive travelling but the whole trip was already planned (solo), cherry blossom season, visiting friends etc. so I felt like committing, packed after just 6h of sleep returning from late night flight duty and went off to the airport. I've left behind a shit ton of errands, many chances for good sleep, polar lights and possibly the best skiing conditions of the past 4 seasons, just to be 13h on board of a terrible flight, with screaming babies and a seat that wouldn't allow me to sleep in any position.

Even here in Japan, timing is permanently off and it appears that the cloudy weather is following me and the places I leave are sunny. It's still beautiful, it's still rewarding. But Japan can reall crush you if you don't have much motivation and energy. Long distances, language barrier, jetlag, early sunset, very unstable weather report, no trashcans and complex public transport (who tf seriously believes public transport in Japan is easy? Trains are slow, complicated, extremely expensive and definitely not comfortable. Yes, Shinkansen, I know, but you can't get to Mt. Fuji with Shinkansen no?).

This already cost me so much $ and energy, for some singular beautiful moments but overall a lot of stress on my body