Overview of events, in chronological order.

Day 1

I travel from my my hometown of Seattle to Tokyo to meet my pen-pal of 3 years, Yoko Onosaki.

Day 10

Yoko and I go to Kyoto, the old capitol of Japan. Here, we visit some hot springs. This is where I meet Ayumi Hamasaki and get the music video proposition.

Day 12

I go to Beijing with Yoko to sign contracts to be in Ayumi's video. Here, I find a stray dog I name Qi-Fu. Yoko goes home to Tokyo, taking Qi-Fu with her.

Day 14

Ayumi and I take a plane to Tahiti to film the music video. This is where I meet my idol, Zhang Ziyi.

Day 23

Ayumi, her crew, and I go to Sydney to do some publicity shots and go to some press conferences for the new video.

Day 27

I decide to take a trip to Alice Springs, Australia, and then go to the Outback. I faint due to dehydration, and am saved by Selma, a journalist.

Day 29

I wake up in a strange hotel room in New Delhi and find out I almost died, but Selma had saved me. Selma asks me to accompany her on the last leg of her trip.

Day 31

Selma and I travel to Vietnam. I turn out to be very helpful because the Vietnamese recognized me as a star and gave us free meals and a room. It didn't hurt that we both speak French, which is still spoken by some of the citizens.

Day 36

Selma and I trekked on to Cambodia, where Selma leaves me with Carmen Sanchez at Angkor, where the filming of the Spanish version of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is taking place. Carmen offered me a plane ride to her home country of Chile if I agreed to help speak French to the Cambodians and had a cameo role in the movie.

Day 40

Carmen and I arrive in Chile, where I take a scenic bus ride to Colombia. 

Day 49

I meet a Colombian coffee plantation owner named Pablo Ferdinando, who I agree to help out for a ride on the next shipment truck to Panama. 

Day 56

I arrive at Panama City and I go to the Panama Canal. Here, I meet Jesus Flores, who offers me a ride on his yacht to Acapulco, Mexico.

Day 61

I arrive in El Salvador with Jesus for a MUCH needed break. We will rest here for a couple of days before we continue to Acapulco.

Day 68

Jesus drops me off in Acapulco, right in the middle of MTV's Spring Break. Here, I am bombarded by TV personalities and cameramen from MTV's affiliate in Japan. I agree to fill in for a missing dancer at a performance and be interviewed for a plane ticket to Seattle.

Day 73

I reach home and it's as if no one knew I was gone, or that I became an Asian pop star. But it was all worth it when I come home to find Yoko holding Qi-Fu, both wanted to spend more time with me after I left abruptly to Tahiti in the middle of my stay in Tokyo.