You would think biking 50 miles would have presented us with a challenge, flat tire, accident, something of that sort, but we were lucky to avoid that. It's a bit ironic really that the problem we encountered didn't come until the final day of our trip, and had nothing to do with our bikes, but instead our group leader and the van(s). After waiting around for a while we finally got a hold of William at which point we learned there had been an accident, thankfully no one was hurt and there weren't really any damages either, but he wouldn't be able to come get us. Um, excuse me, what?
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We just kept going and going and going....
With one loooong day of riding behind us there were still two remaining, although these were promised to be less difficult, I crossed my fingers that this was true. Sara and I took advantage of the beautiful weather and walked down to check out the nearby Watazumi shrine, before leaving for the days ride. Probably the most interesting aspect of the shrine was that the tori (gates) were situated so that as the tide came in and out they changed from either submerged in water, or on dry land. After a quiet stroll through the shrine and multiple pictures we made our way back to camp to enjoy breakfast before heading out for the day. One year after my first visit to Japan I found myself making plans to return, however this trip was guaranteed to be vastly different than the first time around. I hadn't even been planning to go to Japan again, but a few failed plans a fast approaching Chuseok holiday led me there anyway. While my first trip was solo, busing cross country, Couchsurfing and exploring, this time I was signed up for 3 days of biking with 40 other foreigners. Although I'm not one for organized travel, I didn't want to stay in Korea alone, and thus signed up with my friend Sara for a [kind of] organized group trip to Tsushima, an island of Japan I hadn't even known existed. Our trip started with a few hours sleeping on the floor at Busan station, after being turned away from a Jimjilbang (sauna) for being foreigners, and with that I knew this was going to be an interesting few days.
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