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cycling weekend

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Tokyo, 2010.01.12

We spent the weekend on our bikes.

On Saturday we went up to Shibuya to feed the fish in the home aquarium of our friends. We then made three shopping stops along the way back, and had a meal. In total, about two hours on the bikes and some seventeen kilometres. Then on Sunday we took the bikes to a ferry port and rode across to Odaiba. From there we cycled back all the way around the Port of Tokyo, a journey of about 15 kilometres. In all, no great distances, and on the holiday Monday we only ran some errands.

The weather cooperated completely, with crisp sun on Saturday and Sunday. On the island of Daiba there were families flying kites and throwing balls around with their small children. The ride home was done under increasingly windy skies as the coming overcast that plagued us on Monday and today started to build up. But it was more or less as good as we could expect for early January!

rand()m quote

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov