En Route (or the equivalent in Japanese)

First leg of the journey is complete. We left the house at 5:30 this morning (Andrea was not somnambulant) and are now at Dulles Airport. As the plane touched down and while taxiing to the gate, it was all I could do to prevent reaching to turn on my Blackberry (think Peter Sellers' right arm in Dr. Strangelove). But I am on vacation; connectedness can wait. We board our flight to Tokyo in about an hour. More from the other side of the world . . . .