Goodbye Okinawa

Well our three year tour in Okinawa is up (a few months early). I'm not anticipating that we'll ever come back, but who knows. We really loved the island and the people but we're also looking forward to our next assignment and being back in the states.

Scott and I were talking about it and we kind of agree. There's not much sadness or remorse about leaving. I really feel like we seized the day while we were here and did and saw a lot of stuff. We've been all over the island and seen so much. We also traveled to mainland China, Tokyo and Hong Kong while we lived here...plus a little trip to Yoron Island just north of Okinawa. Okinawa was great. Scott is extremely burned out from all the work at Kadena and we're both hoping things will be better in that department in our new place. Arigato gozaimasu Japan for being our host country while we were away from our own...and Okinawa (particularly the people of Okinawa) for being our home. Okinawa is forever a part of us now.
I thought about putting together a slideshow of our Okinawa time, but right now, my mind has already moved on to the next thing. Maybe I'll do that later. So instead, here are some older posts about Okinawa. Dozo!

See a slideshow of our first year in Okinawa HERE.
See a slideshow about our return to Oki HERE after being gone for 10-ish months.
Read the top ten signs you've been in Okinawa too long HERE.
See posts about our Okinawa adventures HERE.

Meeting some kind of monster on one of our last days "on island."
It was a real Japanese send off.