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OH WHAT AN INCREDIBLE WEEKEND!!!! Lisa and I had no idea what we were going to do. I talked to my other friend Jane for the first time in a LONG time and she said she was going on this bike ride that this guy Rob was planning. Lisa and I kind of invited ourselves and found ourselves on a great adventure that none of would ever forget. We ended up riding our bikes from Onomichi in Hiroshima Ken on Honshu across the many islands in the Inland sea to Imabari, Ehime Ken, Shikoku. The ride itself was 75 km, but since we got lost it actually turned out to be about 90 km...THATS THE FURTHEST I HAVE EVER RIDDEN A BICYCLE!!! And, we did about 40 km of it in the pouring rain!!!! But as I said, it was absolutely fabulous.....<br />

Tour de Inland Sea

Casey Lary
2006-02-20 15:36:40

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OH WHAT AN INCREDIBLE WEEKEND!!!! Lisa and I had no idea what we were going to do. I talked to my other friend Jane for the first time in a LONG time and she said she was going on this bike ride that this guy Rob was planning. Lisa and I kind of invited ourselves and found ourselves on a great adventure that none of would ever forget. We ended up riding our bikes from Onomichi in Hiroshima Ken on Honshu across the many islands in the Inland sea to Imabari, Ehime Ken, Shikoku. The ride itself was 75 km, but since we got lost it actually turned out to be about 90 km...THATS THE FURTHEST I HAVE EVER RIDDEN A BICYCLE!!! And, we did about 40 km of it in the pouring rain!!!! But as I said, it was absolutely fabulous.....

So on Friday night it was pouring rain. We all got a text from Rob, aka "Dad" saying that the weather was supposed to clear up by Saturday afternoon and we will be fine. We met up early Saturday morning in Onomichi and it was lightly sprinkling. It honestly looked like there was going to be a break in

This is the first of the many bridges we crossedthe storm and the sun was going to appear by noon. What we thought was the end of the storm turned out to be a lull. The eye of the storm came that afternoon. A few people bailed so we had a troop of 8 people. We rented our not-so-great bikes (but they did work) and were on our way. I felt like we were like the Von Trap family gathering together to go on a family bike ride. It was great. Rob became "dad" because he planned everything and basically took care of all of us. When our bikes had problems, dad was there to help us :-). He had done the ride 3 other times so he knew what we were doing. Our departure time was around 9:30. There was no turning back after that!

Biking through the islands was incredible. We got to see all the different parts of the islands...the beaches, mountains, huge farms, and little island villages. We were ...

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