My schedule in Japan

Do you want to know where I'll be and when I'll be there? It might be fun to look at a map or a globe while you follow my travels. Here's the schedule:

Oct. 12 to Oct. 13 San Francisco
Oct. 14 to Oct. 19 Tokyo, Japan
Oct. 18 is my free day. I will take the Shinkansen, the bullet train (200+miles per hour), to a nearby city called Kamakura.
Oct. 19 to Oct. 20 Nagano City, Nagano
(Nagano is a prefecture, kind of like one of our states.)
Oct. 20 to Oct. 25 Iida, Nagano, my host city (Iida, at the foot of the Southern Alps of Japan, was the home of the 1998 Winter Olympics.)
Oct. 25 to Oct. 26 I'll be with my host family in their home, two parents, a daughter in college, a 15 year-old son who loves baseball, and a 2 year-old daughter.
Oct. 26 to Oct. 27 Iida, Nagano
Oct. 27 to Oct. 30 Tokyo, Japan
Head HOME to the USA...it will be like a time machine going back in time 13 hours!