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Huge fight on the phone last night with Tomoe about what to do for our vacation in two weeks. I'm heading down to Kagawa for the wedding of a friend, and figured to stop by Osaka after (when Tomoe is still working). I'll take my bike and the plan until now had been to hop down to Kyusyu to see my sister and ride in the mountains and visit some great onsens, and end up back in Nagoya at her parents house. (actually the original plan was to go to a friend's wedding in Spain, but Tomoe couldn't get a long enough vacation, nor on the right days to make it)
It's pretty unrealistic though, since Kyusyu is so dang far... and I would like to see a little of where Tomoe is living... (although I have seen Osaka many times and am not impressed... it's just another city).
Since we have more than 2 days off in a row, I would prefer to do something that we never have a chance to do on a weekend. Z.B. take a several day bike trip from A to Z. It was great fun riding from Tokyo to her house in Nagoya two years ago, and it's been a long tiem since we did anything like that.
She is excited to do sight seeing in Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto, which is understandable, but the idea of doing a colloection of day trips to see different versions of dirty urban cesspools that can also be done on weekeds doesn't hold much appeal to me.
Next we started thinking about Shikoku (where I used to live in '95) and it was sounding pretty good, since there are nice non-crowded rural areas, yet it's a 4 hour ferry ride from Osaka. But even that seems a little straining on the time if we want to get to Nagoya afterwords (probably a good idea since i have only met her parents once, and they still aren't too thrilled about me)
Anyway, I'm off to the bike shop to either fix my piece-of-crap bike, or buy a new one. I'll make a stop at the map shop to pick up a map of the Kansai area and see if there isn't anyplace nice to take a three day bike trip around there.
Oh yeah... we didn't really figth either... but it's more dramatic to say so.
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