April 14^th

Things have slowed down so I spent most of this week working on my Zanga site. It takes me the longest time to do the simplest things. Anyways went with a friend to check out the traveling club. Turns out the club travels by bike riding all over Japan. They can ride between 50 and 200 kilometer per day. There fairly serious. I can hardly even ride the two miles from my dorm to campus or up the mountain I need to ride to get up to lab.. and internet access. Anyways the guys were really nice and treated me and my friend to dinner. We ate at another small restaurant but it was full of about 40 college students. It was only operated by a woman and a cook. It took a about 1.5 hours to get food cause the place was so busy but it was worth it cause this place served huge portions for very little money. Its very nice eating at these small places cause its very personal it is as if the cook is cooking food just for you. The woman host was so nice that she even gave us candy for coming. Never run into such cheerful people happy to do there job in California.

Some of the members from the travel club

Touring bike made by panasonic

Restaurant we ate at