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Are you BEE 2010 material?

The 2009 Tour finished earlier this month, and all of us are busy as…dare I say it…BEEs…trying to readjust to “normal” lifestyles.  Ashley, Heraldo, and I have all returned to the US, all unemployed and though I can’t speak for all of us I’m pretty sure we’re happy to be back.  Rocio and Lindsey are [...]

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It’s already over? BEE 2009 Final Report»

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 [...]

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Minamata: Hard to witness, but easy smile»

“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 [...]

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To ride or not to ride when it’s pouring rain, you have a mountain to climb and the thunder makes your heart stop»

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 [...]

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from Yamaguchi to Kyushu 9.24-28»

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 [...]

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Hiroshima»

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 [...]

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6 Islands, 5 Ice cream flavors: The Shimanami Kaido»

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 [...]

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BEE 2009 Route - Kumamoto to Kagoshima 熊本から鹿児島