Our stay at Cosy Penguin House in Sungawa has been underwhelming. We don’t recommend it. On paper it sounds good, but the reality is the she runs a few of these in Bibai and Sunagawa, and stays elsewhere. Her daughter is there but unavailable to us. There is one toilet for the complete property of 5 rooms,the family type shower room could be cleaned up, etc. To make matters worse we feel like she overcharged us, but we have no way of rectifying that. Emails have proven fruitless, so we’ll move on.
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The living room/eating area is a bit strange… a wee couch jammed into a corner and a treadmill for some reason. That’s it for furniture.
And then we come upon this man made pond with a few pleasure boats for hire. It was a bit bizarre to find this with no signage. Nonetheless, a good place for lunch.
We don’t understand why we see what we assume to be local politicians on posters in every community. There must have been an election. We do feel like we get to know these fellows as their billboards are frequently placed along the road.
The headwinds are brutal today. We decided to try to avoid 50 Km of highway riding so we are riding on parallel roads through the farms. The downside is that we are fighting to keep moving as there is nothing to block the wind.
The wind is coming directly across the road. It is funny that the shape of the poles suggest that they are bent by the wind, but we suspect they are fashioned this way to handle the ever present wind.
We pulled over to figure out the best way to get to Norporro Park where we hope to camp tonight. A woman (behind Barry) came running from her house determined to offer her assistance. She then phoned her daughter who drove over from her home to help as well.
The decision was that the mom would ride with us to a starting point and her daughter would drive as well. They didn’t like the looks of the route on google maps.
When we reached the bridge, she gave me a wonderful bear hug and bid us farewell. What a delightful woman who would not be deterred from helping us. She, her daughter and granddaughter made such an impression on us.
We had no difficulty finding the park, but the Forest Campground is another story. We got within a short distance of the campground but we couldn’t find it. We asked some locals and they didn’t know how to access it so we decided to wild camp. Once we found a location with a bathroom, we got busy. Time to set up camp. And this is why we love to travel with a tent as you always have a place to sleep, no matter how crazy your day has been.
Today's ride: 76 km (47 miles) Total: 2,093 km (1,300 miles)
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