BEE Japan

The morning of Monday, August 3rd, didn’t start off the way one who is about to engage on a 10 week bicycle journey hopes: rain.  The skies of Wakkanai, Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost city, were gray and trickling down slowly trying to dampen our departure on the BEE Japan 2009 Ride.  Not the best omen, but [...]

“After cycling everyday for over 6 weeks, what part of the body hurts the most?”
This is a question we put on a recent BEE pub trivia game that we used to raise money while in Hiroshima. Most people made good guesses: legs, knees, lungs. All have certainly ached at one time or another (sorry, the [...]

On September 29th, we left Ueki and the yummy cooking of Lloyd and Kay, to climb mount Aso. For some reason, we were riding quite fast that morning and reached our meeting spot where the 265 and 325 much earlier than expected. Lindsey and I opted to take the most direct route to Merriemont, the [...]

Hi all. We`ve just come out of a few days of intense rain on the road here. But the forecast thankfully looks sunny for the next few days. There`s some rumor of two typhoon colliding in the path of our ferry to Okinawa on Tuesday, so we`re hoping that changes somehow!!
Yuji, a guy we [...]

After a few days camping, we arrived in Hiroshima where we were hosted by Paul and Joy, a couple full of energy who ran a triathlon on the day prior to our arrival, and their two lovely children, Felix and Niya in a spacious house they reformed a few years ago.
Bike Ride and beach [...]

Today we rode from Shikoku to Hiroshima back on Japan’s main island, Honshu. We had parted ways back when we took the ferry from Wakayama to Tokushima, from where we rode lengthways across Shikoku. The Simanami Kaido is a series of 7 bridges that connect 6 islands between Shikoku and Honshu across the [...]