Well, we've begun our trip south down Honshu, and things aren't going particularily smoothly.
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Starting at Cape Oma, we were treated with a day of rain and fog, which necessitated a change in routes. I had originally intended to take us to the interior of the Shimokita Peninsula thru a mountainous, relatively uninhabited valley, but mountainous scenery doesn't quite seem worth it when everything is obscured by clouds!
So, we elected to take a second ferry, saving us several days of travel, and strike for the west coast where we would hopefully be able to run south away from the constant bad weather.
Conditions remained mostly the same, with low clouds during the day and rain at night. However, once we were past the worst of it, Matt's front rack broke!
So, we're now holed up in Akita (known for its attractive women, at least!) waiting for a replacement to arrive at an otherwise surprisingly well stocked bike shop. Thus is the state of the union!
We're here until Saturday, it looks like, after which point we will once again head south. The rough plan is to head inland towards the castle town of Matsumoto, over the Japan Alps, and then in to Kyoto.
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