Day 15 Free Sweets Mean Cycling in Rain
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Loading ...It’s time for me to go back to Nago to get my bike fixed from the comfort of my caring new friends, Hana-chan and Yuki’s home. With Hana-chan’s suggestion, I made a sign that says I’m cycling up Japan, also with the message to cheer up the mourning country from the tsunami disaster.
What I can and should do right now is to keep cycling and show all the wonderful things all over Japan. If the timing of my trip was different, I could have been swept away by the tsunami on my pink bike. I wanted to cycle through all those towns that are no longer there, which used to be beautiful coastal towns. I’ve cried and continue to pray for those victims as I cycle, and hope that my fundraising will be some help in re-establishing those who lost everything.
Kind and such caring Hana-chan made a tuna and sweet corn sandwich to take with me. Thank you so much for everything and taking care of me, Hana-chan!!! I can’t thank her enough.
Hand-made lunch is so heart-warming, especially when traveling alone. I enjoyed it with a smile, thinking about what wonderful time I had with them in Ginowan.
I cycled by a place called, Okashi Goten. It means Mansion of Sweets. That name reminded me of the house made of sweets in Hänsel und Gretel, and also this Okinawan/Chinese looking building is like the castle from an old fable from Japan, called Urashima Taro.
I went in, and they were selling lots of souvenir sweets from Okinawa. I sampled all the sweets they were selling (which was A LOT, since it was a “mansion”), and by the time I finished and came out, it had started raining. It was like someone was telling me I wasn’t supposed to just sample all that without buying anything. I looked up at the grey sky with rain drops coming down on my face.
After free sweets, you must cycle in rain.
I noticed that Okinawa has a lot of tempura places. 5km from my destination in Nago, I came by a fishing port with a couple of seafood places. One of them was a take-out tempura shop. I bought a huge piece of squid tempura and mozuku (a kind of seaweed) one as well. They were 50yen each, which is like 50 US cents. That is really cheap.
I think you know by now that I can eat a lot. (It’s because I’m cycling, just to defend myself!) Since I was at the port, I also got a fresh sashimi bowl. Like any port town, fish was sooo fresh, and the price was so much cheaper.
The meal was accompanied by delicious miso soup and mozuku seaweed:
I made it back to Nago in rain with a very happy stomach. I’m heading to the bike shop in the morning to make my bike, Sakura, happy too.
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