OK, I concede.  We've gone soft - but just for two days.  We've booked into a hotel in Yokote for two days.  We'll dry out (yes, it chucked down again today and will do so again tomorrow), work and rest up for Tuesday when we will hit the road again when better weather is forecast.  Enquiries suggest that rain will be there or thereabouts for the rest of our trip so we will just have to suck it up. If we hope to make Cape Sata by the end of October we will just have to ride like crazy on the good days and take shelter when the weather gets too much.  The question is - what route do we take ?  We'll work that out over the next day and half.  In the meantime we're warm and dry and enjoying a bottle of wine.