2020/05/10
I have been housebound like most of the world for the past two months because of Covid-19. Now that spring has come to Japan I am getting anxious to go on my next trip. It appears that the situation is starting to take a turn for the better. I am hoping I will be able to go on a trip in June. In the meantime, I released a new episode of the Wayfarer Pedalcast. Episode 10 features and interview with my daughter, Pearl. She went on a unique trip in March to visit here friend in the neighboring prefecture of Chiba.
When Pearl asked me how far it was to Kamogawa in Chiba I told 100 kilometers. When anyone asks how far it is to someplace I have two stock answers. 30 km or 100 km. If I feel like it is close I say the former. If I feel like it is far away I answer with the latter. It would probably be better if I just admitted that I don’t know or just told the questioner to go look it up.
Many countries in the world were already in life or death battle with the corona virus. So some readers of this may already be getting into a lather and ramping up into a rant over how irresponsible it was for us to allow Pearl to go on a trip at a time like this. Buy you have to realize that despite Covid-19 being all over the news, Japan was still relatively untouched by the disease. We still had only reported deaths and the number of infected was still well below a thousand people nationwide. Compared to other nations this was no worse than seasonal flu outbreak. Of course, we were concerned but it still seemed like the worst of the disease would pass over Japan. We now know better. But at the time it
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