It was hands down, one of the best trips I've ever been on. It was exhausting and exhilarating but so enjoyable and I'm egging to do it all again. We covered just over 1250km in 20 days, and according to my speedometer we offset 189kg of CO2 doing it.
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| Re-assembled, loaded up and ready to go! |
It took us a bit longer than expected to leave the hostel the first morning, checking and double checking that we'd re-assembled the bikes properly and that we had everything, and were actually ready to get going on our Hokkaido adventure! We finally hit the road a little before 1:30 but we'd only planned a short first day of about 40km to get to Atsuta campsite on the west coast so we weren't under any real pressure. Once we left the city, we also left city conveniences behind us and had our eyes peeled for a petrol station to get fuel for our stove and hopefully something to cook for dinner. The kilometres stretched on and we didn't actualy arrive to the campsite until almost 5:30 at which stage we'd done just under 60km and not the 40km expected. That in itself wasn't too bad, but we hadnt managed to get fuel so we had a very hearty dinner, and breakfast the next morning, of bananas and bread! As starts go, it could've gone better, but I'm not sure either of us noticed, or even cared. We were delighted with ourselves! The campsite was free, the toilets were spotlessly clean and had an ample supply of toilet paper, and best of all, we had it entirely to ourselves! We scoffed down our banana sandwiches, popped the tent up, and snuggeld up in our amazngly cosy new sleeping bags and got an early night!