| Apr 26 2017: Last Days of a Half-Decade Motorcycle Ride It's with mixed feelings that we hand our motorcycles keys over. Equal parts sadness, exhaustion and curiousity at what we're going to do now that our grand old motorcycle trip is over. No, actually it's 70% exhaustion...
— in Motegi, Japan
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| Apr 23 2017: Snow Monkeys of Hoth The snow banks rise higher and higher around us, as we ascend the mountain. I stare at the tops of the walls, expecting to see snow monkeys peering down at us, like Tusken Raiders, ready to lob snowballs at unsuspecting motorists!
— in Mount Kusatsu-Shirane, Japan
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| Apr 22 2017: Wassup? Wasabi! Shocking fact: most people have never tasted real wasabi. Even after years of eating sushi, neither have we. Until now!
— in Azumino, Japan
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| Apr 21 2017: Snow Covered Rock and Roll Biker Dreams The mountain pass between us and a motorcycle rock and roll fantasy is blocked by snow. So Neda trades in her bike for a Japan-A-Van.
— in Hakuba, Japan
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| Apr 19 2017: Naked Festival The drunken Naked Dudes spill out into the crowds and I'm crushed against a storefront window. Policemen try to pull them off to keep us safe, but it's an exercise in futility. We are now part of the Naked Festival.
— in Hida, Japan
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| Apr 16 2017: Kansai Riders Ripping up the roads with the Kansai Riders! Such an awesome time!
— in Kyoto, Japan
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| Apr 15 2017: A RideDOT.com Presentation in Japan During our talk, someone throws a bowl of spaghetti at our slideshow. More than once.
— in Kobe, Japan
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| Apr 13 2017: Hiroshima A red ball is suspended over a 3D map. This is where the atomic bomb exploded, 600 meters above Hiroshima. One second after the bomb detonated, the ball of radioactive fire is already 280 meters in diameter.
— in Hiroshima, Japan
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| Apr 12 2017: Kitsch and Karst We pass by a huge shopping centre that's decorated with all the traditional Japanese imagery: Kimonos, paper lanterns, pagodas, etc. It's obviously a tacky tourist trap! But OMG, we love it!
— in Akiyoshi-Dai, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
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| Apr 11 2017: Riding Beneath Cherry Blossom Skies Cherry blossoms in Japan last only two weeks. But with a bit of motorcycle magic, we can easily extend sakura season to over four weeks!
— in Fukuoka, Japan
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| Apr 10 2017: Travels with Yakuza in the City of Steam The naked truth about why Neda is banned from Japanese bath houses.
— in Obama, Japan
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| Apr 08 2017: Photobombing Samurais Creepy gaijin photobombing the nice Samurai family
— in Aso, Japan
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