What can we say? Tour 2001 was a success-all thanks to you, the reader. But we couldn't have pulled it off without the finest sales staff, tour sponsors, and photographers, as well as a few thousand ...

This year's tour went as smoothly as the jet stream; 31 peopletravelled on a direct flight from Los Angeles to Tokyo in a touch more than 12 hours, with a return of just more than eight hours. As in ...