Arrival in Sapporo

Well, we made it. I will spare you the details of a perfectly unremarkable airplane journey (and also speak like Data because I cannot find the apostrophe on this keyboard) but the important thing is, we made it in one piece, and are now clean, happy and in possession of two functional, non-broken bicycles.



Getting from the airport to the hostel was an adventure in public transport (awesome subway pictured) and after a little nighttime wandering of the streets of Sapporo we found our hostel.



We are here for two more days - setting up and checking the place out. After that, we have not really figured out where exactly we plan to go, but expect too see it mapped out in detail via google maps!

2 days...

The bags are packed, and we're ready to go. Actually, *I* am ready to go - knowing Matt he'll finish his packing at 9am on Monday morning. And then probably show up late for the flight out.

Barring any G20-related delays, we fly at 1pm on Monday afternoon, and arrive in Sapporo Tuesday at about 9pm. From there, we trek from the airport to our hostel in downtown Sapporo via the following meticulously planned route:


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Fun with google maps - zoom in and you can follow the transfers from train to subway to street. You can actually see where we're staying in street view!

Beyond that, the open road awaits! Wish us luck....

10 Days

In case it wasn't obvious, we're going to Japan. Zack, once fully spandexed is going to lead the way while I am going to fuel our progress with sarcasm and hill related cursing.

We're there for 88 days and attempting to cover roughly 4,000km. As is our nature, nothing is thoroughly planned. Below is the first month or so of biking and while we likely wont stick to the plan exactly, it's a rough indication of our goals.


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If television has taught me anything about Japan it's that we'll be in a constant state of battle with giant wasps, tentacle monsters and evil samurai but I'm pretty sure everyone knows Karate so we should be ok.

We leave in ten days and today is my last day of work, so I'm off to enjoy a few days of the Canadian patio season as an unemployed drifter before we leave!