In yesterday's blog post, we indicated that a reporter had interviewed
us for a newspaper story about our ride. When we woke up this morning, our
hotel managers excitedly showed us the local newspaper with the article about
us. They cut out the article and gave it to us, and took their own picture of
the two of us.
Today was our last of four days cycling on the picturesque
Noto peninsula. The endpoint of our ride was Toyama, a city of 415,000. Toyama
is a very industrial city that was heavily bombed on August 1-2, 1945, just a
few days before the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The bombing of Toyama
was so intense that 99.5% of the city's urban core was destroyed. [Aside: what
a stupid, destructive way to resolve a conflict.]
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| Newspaper article |
Scenes from our ride today:
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| Even the road construction barricades have a sea motif |
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| Entering Toyama, with all the other local cyclists |
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| Getting work done on the floor in the hotel room at the end of our ride today, Japanese-style |
