Bike Tracks

We arrived at the hotel just prior to noon, local time. We lost an hour on the clock and had been traveling via bus and/or plane for the past 26 hours. I am wound up, our hotel is located across the street from a Japanese Castle, it looks wonderful, with pagoda like guard houses on […]

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Hiroshima, Japan Day 285 traveling the world Hiroshima suffered a horrible disaster in 1945 from which it has turned into a city with a purpose. We visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum where the horrors of the atom bomb and it’s aftermath are detailed in shocking realty. The Museum takes visitors through a pictorial history […]

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Bus to Sanbe Mountain Day 283 After a maddening night of rain storms the tent got taken down and packed away soaking wet. We were on the road (via bus) again. I kept trying to find enlightenment. Why are we doing this? It is a 6 hour ride to Sanbe, we stay a night then […]

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Amanohashidate Day 281 My time in Kyoto was much to short for my liking. There was so much more to see and do and we were only allowed one day. This morning we board a bus for the beginning of the Japanese bicycle leg from hell. The bus trip was only supposed to be 3 […]

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We flew from Cairns on the northeast coast of Australia over the top of Australia northwest across Indonesian air space to Malaysia. Changing from a charter to commercial airlines in Kuala Lumpur we traveled back to the northeast over Philippines and Taiwan to Osaka, Japan. It was a long journey. Our bikes are still in […]

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