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The coast road out to Cape Erimo gives us a windy tailwind, which gets windier and windier \u00e2\u20ac\u201c by the time we reach the Cape it’s hard to stand. After a struggle we escape with our bikes and some photos, and cycle away down the other side of the Cape, into a crosswind. We lean into it to stay upright, and as it gusts we waver around all over the place, struggling to stay upright. Cars sensibly give us a wide berth, and after a few kilometres of this, the wind starts to ease off.<\/p>\n
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We spend the rest of the day cycling through small fishing towns along the coast. Lots of gravel beds for kelp drying, and men stand in the surf with long poles with hooks on the end for grabbing kelp. Fishmermen with big square backpacks sit by the roadside waiting for the fisherman bus.<\/p>\n
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It rains on and off all day, but never sets in, so we stay dry. I see a fox trotting across the road, and he stands to stare at me as I struggle up the hill towards him. It’s around this time that my fingers start hurting again. The prickly heat on the back of my fingers, acquired about two weeks ago, never really healed \u00e2\u20ac\u201c now it’s forming enormous mega-blisters and swelling up so much that my fingers won’t bend.<\/p>\n
Our camp that night has bear caution tape, and a huge group of drunken Japanese guys who are playing ball games and yelling. One comes to talk to me \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I learn the Japanese word for drunk.<\/p>\n
Distance cycled:<\/strong> 100km We leave the campground with a tailwind behind us. It has been blowing steadily all night, so all our things are dry, and even our bike shoes don’t saturate our socks as soon as we put them on. Cape Erimo The coast road out to Cape Erimo gives us a windy tailwind, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,141,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","category-european-bike-epic","category-general"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"megan","author_link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?author=1"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["bikes<\/a>","european bike epic<\/a>","general<\/a>"],"unlinked":["bikes<\/span>","european bike epic<\/span>","general<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"4","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 17 years ago","modified":"Updated 4 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 14.6.2009","modified":"Updated on 12.2.2022"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 14.6.2009 1:52 pm","modified":"Updated on 12.2.2022 8:27 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6569,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions\/6569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTrip total:<\/strong> 1264km
\nLocation:<\/strong> Cape Erimo \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Shizunai Onsen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"