Although some parts were one-laners, mostly they were recently paved two lane with corners of decent radii. The mountains were beautiful with fresh green. I met a police bike in the opposite direction soon after I violated the double yellow, nodded to him, and he nodded back. I found a secret police car that captured a cage in my direction, but on the RS with WFO and a bit of heavy traffic, no police car would catch up with me. Ai and Erika welcomed me with big smiles on their faces.
Life is good.
Now, I'm looking forward to another long ride to Sendai this November. I attended the meeting and presented my paper in a workshop. I had been thinking of riding over to Kobe, about 600km west of Tokyo. But the weather forecast said that it would rain on 1st, Nov., when I would be returning from Kobe. A 600km ride would be the second longest ride in a single day for me.