Today was nice riding on quiet roads with a few climbs until we were about 10kms from the planned campsite. After a supermarket stop quiet a way out of the town my bike broke. Basically when I peddled the wheel didn’t go around. It seemed like something is wrong with the pawls. These basically allow the bike to free wheel and allow you to peddle and make the bike go forward.

After some road side deliberation we decided it was best to go to the campsite anyway me pushing scooting and freewheeling down the hills. It took about 2 hours. And a bit annoyingly an early day turned into a late one.

While all this was going on our fixer (Cliff’s Dad)  in Tokyo was sorting stuff out in communication with Cliff.

The solution is to hopefully get a taxi that can hopefully fit both the bikes and all our stuff in to a bike shop Frog Bicycle at 9am tomorrow.

I thought that I wasn’t going to make it too the southern most point but luckily Cliff suggested I should borrow his bike and head there before it got dark tonight. I made it and it looked good and was very glad I did. As now I have been to the top and bottom of Japan, north and southern points. The southern one looks better I think, but getting to the northern one is probably overall nice I think.

Well time for bed and fingers crossed for tomorrow 🤌

And a massive thanks again to Cliff and his Dad.