First, your vacation. If I were you, I would drop Okinawa, which is truly not among the prettiest Pacific islands, and gets a lot of rain [though a little less in July and August]. On the other hand, there are many things to see on Hokkaido [like the northern mountains] and the weather should be delightful. Going to both would seem costly with all the flying. So why not just go to Hokkaido?

Now, the moment of [disagreeable] truth. My guess about your procrastination in travel planning, on the one hand, but spending all that time on blogs, forums, internet sales sites, is that it is an escape from day to day reality. And yes, at a certain level, a sort of addiction.

You have told us you will be going back to Germany, but haven't talked about it at all lately: when are you going? What are you going to do about your stuff [shipping, selling/discarding, etc.]? How long ahead do you need to give notice? I am of course making assumptions, maybe you have the whole thing pinned down, in which case I deeply apologize. Or maybe it is for so late in the year there are still oodles of time [gomen!]