Hello and welcome to episode 207 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchenic, joined once again by...

Jestin Erwin. It's hello Ian. Good to be back.

Hello, Jason. How are you, sir?

Sleepy. I don't know what day it is or what time it is. I think I'm home.

I'm pretty sure I'm home, but happy to be back.

Well, welcome back. We'll make this a quick show this week because Jason is in fact just off a 13 hour flight from Japan.

And what a way to go?

We gave him time to splash some water on his face and now we're recording the podcast.

So we'll make it a quick show and come back in full force next week.

But Jason, yeah, you were, you turned your attention away from aviation

over the past week or so and dove right into the rail.

So how was Japan?

How was the flight there?

And then we'll talk about the flight back.

Yeah, I did the thing where I only talk about trains for about a week,

but that's pretty much what we did in Japan went kind of all over Tokyo and Westram there. Tokyo Hiroshima, Osaka, Nagoya, Tsoyama, Kanizawa, kind of

of all over the place just riding the trains and the way we don't typically get the chance to do here in the US and by first train right back from JFK this afternoon would prove that our experience here is awful in comparison.

It's another way of life entirely.

But it was great flu, joll both ways, non-stop on miles,

which was nice.

Economy on a 787 on the way out there, which was not so bad because Jahl is the only

airline in the world operating that the 787 in the originally intended seats across, which is a nice treat that was nice and then scrounged together enough points. Thanks mom and dad for the assist on that one since my points were tied up in my original booking that I couldn't cancel but

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