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If anyone out there enjoys google maps as much as I do (unlikely) I try to mark our camping spots as exactly as I can, so zoom in there and see if you can see any tents! Also, that mess of blips around D was us killing time a day before we could get in to our hotel.
The riding for the past few days has been generally good, if brutally hot. One would think that when the sun sets, and the temperature drops from 36 to 27 degrees, it would be a relief. One would be wrong.
In any case, here are some features of the trip thus far that I don't think I've got to yet:
-A standard convenience store meal. Yogurt to keep the intestinal flora diverse, cold buckwheat soba noodles (good on a hot day), donuts for dessert and a nice cold bottle of chilled green tea! No sugar or anything, a nice drink.
-Huge manga libraries! Pretty much every hostel we've visited, as well as many ramen shops, have boasted enormous collections of manga. I'd probably pay 30$ a night in Canada to be able to hang out at a house and read that many comics for hours on end..
-Coffee in a can. Ice cold and packed with sugar, makes it very drinkable. From vending machines of course.
-Pudding in a can! The texture was absolutely dreadful, like drinking curdled milk, but it tasted great. Also available from vending machines.
-Individually wrapped slices of French Toast! For that heavily bastardized taste of home.
-Choco-bannana! This thing was actually pretty gross, moreso when I realized there was no real bannana inside. Though I do appreciate that only one side is coated in chocolate, saving your fingers from getting all melty-chocolatey.
And I suppose since most of these pictures have been of packaging, here are a a couple from outside:
-Riding thru the rice fields, and
-Along the riverside here in Niigata.
Tomorrow, onwards once again, towards Matsumoto and Kyoto!
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