And I am away again!!!!

And I'm off! Who hooo! (tomorrow morning)

In a happy turn of events Tomoe will be able to join us for one day of the bike trip, and in an even happier turn of events, the weather forecast for these next few days finally calls for SNOW! This means snow during the course I will be working and, if we are lucky, snow during the bike trip! We may end up having to hitch-hike all the way to Nagano. How great would that be!

I leave you with a few photos from may previous Nagano winter mountaineering adventures. Lets hope that the kids I will be working with can get at least the same "winter" experience!

The guy in these photos is Shin-chan, the one making the bike tour with me from Nagoya to Nigata/Nagano border.

The photo below is from Otari, the mountain villiage I was in and will be in again from next week.