Not that there have not been a few bumps, in the road, on our bodies, on the bikes, pretty much wherever they could be honestly, but we are taking them as they come and building on our missteps. We will pretty much be invincible by the time this is done...or not, but either way there will be some great stories. Now for today's adventure...
We road in from Imibari where we spent a night with a nice Japanese woman, Neo, and her husband in their small, traditional home. She fed us a nice meal in the morrning and we once again braved the blazing heat heading up the coast.
The riding was mostly city other than one beautiful hill where we stopped to take in the view. Stopping regularly for snacks, water, A/C'd stores, and the like we made it to our destination. We spent two, nice air-conditioned nights in a hostel/hotel in the quaint port city of Takamatsu. The nights indoors are so replenishing on one's soul (it may sound dramatic but words never have felt so true). We had our first taste of a local favorite, tako-yaki, a little ball of cooked dough with octopus inside, which is delicious and mostly sat around and enjoyed not doing anything in particular. It is nice to be off the bikes and walking around the towns. This one in particular has a wonderful outdoor covered shopping region that covers a good quarter of the city with food, restaurants, shops, and lots of people watching.
We continued on by boarding a series of ferries to cross the inland sea, as they call it, to Himeji to continue our journey up the undulating, lush landscape of Japan.
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