BICYCLING, ONE AUTUMN MORNING

Finally moved all our stuff to the 'new' house.

So quiet and peaceful, this place...

Could hear the sound of the waves although we are quite a distance from the shores of Sea...

The air, so cool and refreshing...

But the mosquitoes, so fierce...

They pierce through the socks and the cotton shirts...

Eeeeiiii... no joke...

Made a trial run cycling from our house to the university this morning...

All my friends and acquaintances and friends had laughed at my suggestion...

My sweetheart hahahaa-ed at me to no end...

So, I woke up at 5:00 this morning...

I washed up and returned to the second floor to watch the sun rise over the Japan Inland Sea...

The neighborhood is called Gokenzan (literally, Five Swords Mountain)...

True enough, I had to scale five sets of ups-and-downs on the 18-kilometer stretch to the university...

Took me almost 1 hour 30 minutes to touch base...

I had wondered if I should get an off-road Honda motorbike...

But I think I shall go for the Giant mountain bike now...

I just love to cycle...

All the way through the Five Swords...

Perhaps except in summer, when I will certainly melt...