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Deanna and BB bike to Saitama [photopost]
Feb. 15th, 2009 02:49 amToday was Feb 14th, and the weather was AMAZING. Like, at 1pm it was sunny and around 70 degrees Fahrenheit out there.
So, despite bike riding 6 miles yesterday, I decided what the hell, I'd go for another long bike ride today!
This time my goal was seeing how long it'd take to get to Lotte Urawa Stadium, near the Musashi-Urawa train stop. From my old place it took around 35 minutes. It's a bit over 5 miles away from where I live now in Tokyo, so I wasn't sure what to expect.
To sum up, I left home at 1:49pm, rode to Lotte Urawa, arrived there at 3pm, decided to ride from there to Yakult Toda stadium in Bijogi park, arrived there at 4pm (with a stop at Lotteria for lunch), rode around the park for a while, then rode home at 4:30, arriving back at my house around 6:30pm (with the only stop being at Bookoff for about 15 minutes).
(scale is 2km or 2miles, unlike yesterday's map which is scale 500m or 2000 feet)
I took a TON of photos today so here's a huuuuuge photopost of what I saw along the way. I mostly actually took photos as timestamps believe it or not -- I forgot to bring any paper to write on when I packed my bag for the trip. I just brought a winter coat, a longsleeve shirt, some water, some sembei rice crackers, and my camera. Oh, and BB (my little keychain plushie of the Nippon Ham Fighters mascot bear). He was on my bag and I decided he would be a good focal point when taking random shots.
Anyway, I left my house and went back to Road 17 just like yesterday, except this time instead of turning south, I turned north...
( Photopost of a 14-mile bike ride... )
I had thought about going shopping after the bike ride tonight, but instead I bought a menchi-katsu bento from a place by Motohasunuma on my way home, and DEVOURED IT when I arrived, and then just sat here for the evening instead, playing Puzzle Pirates and watching Japanese DVDs of baseball movies. I watched Mister Rookie just to make sure it works -- I HAVE to invite over some people to watch it some other time because it is so much awesome -- and then I watched Touch, which I actually never had bothered watching before. I have to watch it again too, now that I actually understand who the hell all of the characters are. (I had the twins confused for like the first 30 minutes.)
Man, 14 miles. 20 miles over two days. Yeesh.
Tomorrow, my goal is to not ride my bike.
I might actually be going swing dancing. That would be pretty bizarre if it actually happens. Hopefully it'll use different muscles in my legs.
Is it worth me doing these silly huge photoposts of my bike rides or other similar wanderings? I just figured that since I kept getting out my camera to take timestamp photos (and also I took photos of some landmarks so I could figure out my route on a map later, heh), I might as well post 'em. Or something.
So, despite bike riding 6 miles yesterday, I decided what the hell, I'd go for another long bike ride today!
This time my goal was seeing how long it'd take to get to Lotte Urawa Stadium, near the Musashi-Urawa train stop. From my old place it took around 35 minutes. It's a bit over 5 miles away from where I live now in Tokyo, so I wasn't sure what to expect.
To sum up, I left home at 1:49pm, rode to Lotte Urawa, arrived there at 3pm, decided to ride from there to Yakult Toda stadium in Bijogi park, arrived there at 4pm (with a stop at Lotteria for lunch), rode around the park for a while, then rode home at 4:30, arriving back at my house around 6:30pm (with the only stop being at Bookoff for about 15 minutes).
(scale is 2km or 2miles, unlike yesterday's map which is scale 500m or 2000 feet)
I took a TON of photos today so here's a huuuuuge photopost of what I saw along the way. I mostly actually took photos as timestamps believe it or not -- I forgot to bring any paper to write on when I packed my bag for the trip. I just brought a winter coat, a longsleeve shirt, some water, some sembei rice crackers, and my camera. Oh, and BB (my little keychain plushie of the Nippon Ham Fighters mascot bear). He was on my bag and I decided he would be a good focal point when taking random shots.
Anyway, I left my house and went back to Road 17 just like yesterday, except this time instead of turning south, I turned north...
( Photopost of a 14-mile bike ride... )
I had thought about going shopping after the bike ride tonight, but instead I bought a menchi-katsu bento from a place by Motohasunuma on my way home, and DEVOURED IT when I arrived, and then just sat here for the evening instead, playing Puzzle Pirates and watching Japanese DVDs of baseball movies. I watched Mister Rookie just to make sure it works -- I HAVE to invite over some people to watch it some other time because it is so much awesome -- and then I watched Touch, which I actually never had bothered watching before. I have to watch it again too, now that I actually understand who the hell all of the characters are. (I had the twins confused for like the first 30 minutes.)
Man, 14 miles. 20 miles over two days. Yeesh.
Tomorrow, my goal is to not ride my bike.
I might actually be going swing dancing. That would be pretty bizarre if it actually happens. Hopefully it'll use different muscles in my legs.
Is it worth me doing these silly huge photoposts of my bike rides or other similar wanderings? I just figured that since I kept getting out my camera to take timestamp photos (and also I took photos of some landmarks so I could figure out my route on a map later, heh), I might as well post 'em. Or something.
