FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22nd, 2006
HWY106 to SHOSANBETSU
86km 4h:08m
My roadside campout again gave me only a little sleep. At 4am the rain started so I packed up in the mens bathroom and was pedalling by 530am. The rain wasnt bad and after 25k it stopped. Hwy 106 didnt disappoint today, just a beautiful drive with Rishiri watching me from the right, but slowly fading into the back. I stopped for a great breakfast in Teshio in the sun, and chatted with a friendly old man out for a walk. The last few valleys were getting me tired. Then a semi truck buzzed me super close, sending me into a speed wobble and almost doing a header into the drop off ditch!! I don't snap much on a ride, but this asshole.... well I threw the bird up high and long so he'd see it in his mirror while he typed out a message on his cellphone and lit his 5th ciggy in the other hand, while 'driving'. Well wouldn't you know it, just then to my right is Sausage Man from last night waving at me holding his keitai, obviously having just taken a picture of me giving the bird, nice.
I set up at Shosanbetsu and headed for a long long long onsen. I chilled in the relax room again for a few hours and recharged everything. Just before sunset I cooked up some carbonera in a slight rain, then moved into my tent to eat. I treated myself to a can of beer, though spilled it twice inside. It'll just blend in with the smells the poor tarn2 has acquired...
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