New Hampshire Union Leader Night Editor Sherry Wood spends 10 days in Japan on the trail of the 1905 Portsmouth Peace Treaty.
I was woken this morning by the cries of a flock of geese and looked out the window to see them curving their way south. It seemed a fitting beginning for a day in which I will be on a plane for 15 hours. Let's just hope someone is there to meet me at the airport in Tokyo. Otherwise I will have to make use of my slender stock of Japanese, which includes: "arigato gozaimasu" (thank you), "ogenki de" (be well) and "nomisugi shinai yo ni" (don't drink too much).
Wish me well.
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About SherryWood
Sherry Wood, 49, is the Night Editor at the New Hampshire Union Leader. She began her newspaper career in 1974 with her hometown weekly in Virginia. In 1988, she was part of a team of reporters and editors that produced a Pulitzer Prize-winning series on abuses of the Massachusetts prison furlough system. She has been at the New Hampshire Union Leader since 2000. She lives in Rye with her husband, Jeff. They have two children.