Yikes! Been a loooong time since I published! For shame! How cliché, apologizing for not posting on a blog for a while. What can I say? I lost momentum. But I have had requests to continue it, and I would like to finish the story, so hold on for the rest of the ride... Day …
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Day 14 - Iwamizawa to Sapporo - 26 miles Woke up to a lovely sunny day and had a nice, leisurely ride into Sapporo. This sounds odd to say, but it finally started to feel like Japan. Maybe just the Japan I was used to, but so much of Hokkaido was so sparse, many large …
Day 9 - Shibetsu to Asahikawa - 33 miles After several days of a moderately severe head-cold, I finally felt well enought to begin riding again. I woke up this morning, though, with some mild anxiety. Waking with anxiety has become pretty common for me through the years. I am so used to it that …
Update: I am well now 🙂 1. I leave Nayoro. Absolutely sick of it. 2. I camp in Shibetsu. 3. I bike only 2 miles south, (still in Shibetsu) and decide I am still too sick to keep travelling, and get a capsule at a capsule hotel for 2 nights.
After years or dreaming about this, and months of planning, the day finally arrived. It was a rainy morning in Northern Virginia. My brother Taylor and his wife Caitlin drove me to Dulles International Airport. Then I was on the plane to Narita (oddly, the 14-hour flight seemed to *ahem* fly by. I read, napped, …
Collecting gear is one of the most fun, overwhelming and time-consuming aspects of preparing. I've poured dozens of hours comparing and contrasting features, prices, what I really even need vs don't really need, weight, size, convenience, quality, color even... After mulling a lot over every item shown, and after buying, trying, returning and replacing several items, I am …
This has been a difficult week. I suffer from episodic chronic anxiety and depression, and I would like to specify what that means exactly, for me. Mental health is very personal– how a particular individual experiences a mental illness is specific to him or her. I suffer from periods of depression, anxiety, or a combination of the …
A few developments since my last post: I *almost* camped in my tent several nights ago. I had pitched it in my dad's backyard, just to practice putting it up, and to get more used to it generally. I decided that night in particular would a great night to take it for a test run; …
A good friend of mine who is currently hiking the Appalachian Trail recently paid me a visit in Virginia. He is almost at the 1,000 mile marker, and we spoke a lot about the challenges and benefits of doing a 2000-plus-mile hike, as well as the similarities between his current hike and my future bike …
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