Day 5 we rose early (sunlight is better than any alarm) and broke camp to ponder how to get back to Kanazawa. Our legs informed us that while it was probably possible, it would be grueling and very time-consuming to bike, so we grabbed a bus to Kanazawa station for a whopping ~$13 each and gave ourselves a break. The last day would have been across the interior of the peninsula, as we'd biked up and down the full length of the peninsula, so Ana maintains that we "biked the Noto" which has some truth to it. I maintain that we wussed out, which is also true, but it was quite pleasant to do so and it gave us a lot more time at home before having to go back to work the next day. Our bikes took some effort to stow under the bus, but we got them in, and knocked about 40 miles off the trip back to Kanazawa. We still had to bike from where we got off the bus back to the apartment, and we stopped at McDonald's so that Ana could have the milkshake she'd been craving for some time. While there, I noticed that a quarter pounder with cheese is, in Japan, still called a quarter pounder with cheese. I assure you, the vast majority of Japanese people have very little idea what that means, using only the metric system. Anyway, we made it the last few miles back by bike and it was a lot easier than biking the whole distance. Our total mileage (not counting the bus) came to about 192 miles over the 4.5 day trip and we saw a lot of cool stuff, much of which was very different than the parts of Japan we have seen, and overall the trip seemed to be a pretty solid success. Plus, where else can you go to eat emu?
Campsite by the river
I believe they assembled this one inside and couldn't get it out again - saw next to the bus stop
Not a
Royale with Cheese, apparently
Survived, and it was sunny on yet another day that it was supposed to have rained
Both made it back
Final Mileage
Not a Royale with Cheese, apparently
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