{"id":1953,"date":"2009-06-16T14:03:21","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T20:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evilmoose.shafted.com.au\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2022-02-12T20:25:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T02:25:56","slug":"day-sixteen-and-seventeen-%e2%80%93-my-fingers-hurt-strong-pain-killers-and-the-flight-to-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?p=1953","title":{"rendered":"day sixteen and seventeen &#8211; my fingers hurt, strong pain killers, and the flight to tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to my fingers I didn&#8217;t get much sleep last night.  We&#8217;re cycling uninspiring industrial coastal road into Chitose though, so I don&#8217;t feel too bad about the fact that all I can think of is my fingers.  On the way we stop at a pharmacy and mange to get a mild steroid cream for me.  It doesn&#8217;t help much.  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"dropshadow\" style=\"width:410px;position:relative;margin:auto;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/photos\/571726365_XE6nU-S.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p><center><em>Drying fish<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We set up in a campground in urban Chitose, then try to find some more medical help.  We end up at a pharmacy with a girl who phones her English teacher, who comes to the pharmacy to try and help.  They are all lovely, and I go away with a numbing cream of some sort, which also doesn&#8217;t help.  Tomorrow we&#8217;ll try the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Another night of not enough sleep thanks to fingers, and I spend all morning in search of, and at, the hospital.  I come away with drained blisters, a stronger steroid cream, cotton gloves, and some lovely strong pain killers.  We find some food in the city, I take my first pain killer, then we set off to the airport.  I start slurring my words, and concentrate very hard on cycling.<\/p>\n<p>As we arrive at Chitose Airport we say goodbye to the Boy, who keeps cycling south through the rest of Japan.  We sit packing away our bikes into the Tardis bags, and our panniers into our low-rent stripy plastic bags, which are rapidly disintegrating.  Check-in is fine (no excess luggage hurrah \u00e2\u20ac\u201c we&#8217;re flying JAL, but through the oneworld Japan tickets), mosburger for dinner is tasty (my &#8216;bun&#8217; consists of a fried rice patty, oh the tastiness), and the flight goes fine, spitting us out at Tokyo Haneda airport just as it is closing for the night.  We can&#8217;t get to Narita tonight, but we need to be there first thing in the morning.  It&#8217;s nearly midnight, and it seems pointless to try and sleep for the night.  We store our luggage in lockers at a train station, and go wandering round central Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"dropshadow\" style=\"width:410px;position:relative;margin:auto;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/evilmoose.smugmug.com\/photos\/572096902_vmqSe-S.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p><center><em>4am in Tokyo<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Distance cycled 15th:<\/strong> 109km<br \/>\n<strong>Distance cycled 16th:<\/strong> 26km<br \/>\n<strong>Trip total:<\/strong> 1398km<br \/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> Shizunai \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Chitose &#8211; Tokyo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to my fingers I didn&#8217;t get much sleep last night. We&#8217;re cycling uninspiring industrial coastal road into Chitose though, so I don&#8217;t feel too bad about the fact that all I can think of is my fingers. On the way we stop at a pharmacy and mange to get a mild steroid cream for [&hellip;]<\/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-1953","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":["<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=29\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">bikes<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=141\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">european bike epic<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">general<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">bikes<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">european bike epic<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">general<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"3","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 17 years ago","modified":"Updated 4 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 16.6.2009","modified":"Updated on 12.2.2022"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 16.6.2009 2:03 pm","modified":"Updated on 12.2.2022 8:25 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953","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=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6568,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions\/6568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}