http://cycling.monoanimal.com a touring journal Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:51:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://cycling.monoanimal.com/archives/686 Today we spent the morning with Kanae and adorable Riko and Rio. First Kanae brought us to the famous Giant Buddha of Kamakura - one of the only two giant Buddha statues in all Japan. I'm pretty sure there are others but, hey, an official list is an official list ... http://cycling.monoanimal.com/archives/683 We got up early this morning for a quick hike before heading out for the day. Kanae lead us along roads until we reached the classic, stairs up a mountain of Japan. At the top of the stairs we found a path that wound its way along the ... http://cycling.monoanimal.com/archives/681 Hello all, sadly the internet is being very weird (big surprise) and we cant seem to upload pictures (but we can write and upload posts...). Hopefully we will figure it out soon, but in the meantime please enjoy these very delayed, no picture posts - yikes, things are going downhill ... http://cycling.monoanimal.com/archives/676 After being in and out of sleep, intermittently woken up by peoples' arrivings and coughings and other goings ons, we finally got up at 6:45 and were out of the internet cafe by 7. We hopped on the train and were at the famous Tsukiji Fish Market no later than ... http://cycling.monoanimal.com/archives/679 This morning I found myself in a panic about all the repacking that needed to be done before we could get on a plane, so we decided to delay running off to Tokyo until we had our bags under control. Sadly the bikes wont fit into a suitcase, so ... http://cycling.monoanimal.com/archives/672 We woke up. We built the bikes. We loaded the bikes with all the bags. We biked the 10km to Shin Osaka station, enjoying the scenery of the city along the way. We took apart the bikes piece by piece. We wrapped and taped the ... http://cycling.monoanimal.com/archives/677 Having failed to leave the city last night we spent most of today searching for a different way out. First we went to a different bus company, the JR buses, and talked to them. After having been told twice by the person helping us that bikes would be ... http://cycling.monoanimal.com/archives/669 First of all we need to apologies for lack of posts. As our trip is winding down, we are entering the phase that we have planned very little for. Most of it we just figured would work itself out. Well, it is working itself out but the mystery of each ... http://cycling.monoanimal.com/archives/666 At 8:30 my phone roused me with a tune that I only like when it doesnt ring early in the morning. I looked down at the name glowing on the screen and remembered my excited pleas last night that Dustin to take me with him on his outings today. ... http://cycling.monoanimal.com/archives/664