I'll be home for Christmas!

So today is my last day of school! Tomorrow I leave for home. I have a long trip ahead of me. It will take me about four hours to get to the airport. (If I could drive to a station half an hour away that would probably make the trip less than three hours, but I can’t leave my car there. So I have to take a train up north, wait at the station for an hour, and then go back down the way I came, sort of. And of course I have to be at the airport ahead of time. Then I have one stopover in CA and I am there for 6 hours! So lets enjoy some math!:

Home to train station: 3 minute walk
Station A to Station B: 45 minutes
Wait at Station B: 73 minutes (but I can catch an early lunch)
Station B to Kyoto: 81 minutes
Wait at Kyoto: 13 minutes
Kyoto to Airport: 48 minutes.

Time spent in airport 2.5-4 hours (depending on which train I catch)
Japan to CA: 10 hours
Time in CA airport: 6 hours
CA to home airport: 5 hours
Airport to house: 1 hour (if lucky)

TOTAL TRAVEL TIME: 1,733 minutes OR a whopping 28.8 hours (with possible add on time here!) Luckily the trip back involves less stopover time.

But, anyway, it's all worth it to be home for Christmas. :)

-Lisa