Amazingly, about four and half months have passed now since Clare and I decided that we’d take the long way home. In that time, we’ve spent 3 months waiting for our car to be ready, 2 weeks on holiday in the UK and most recently a month finally getting down to the job of getting Totty ready for action. Whilst Totty’s still far from being finished, she’s reached a stage now where we can sleep inside her, and on that basis we set off from Tokyo last weekend and hit the road for the weekend….
To be fair, “hitting the road” kind of overstates things. Actually we had a bit of lie-in, pottered around for an hour, got some food ready and sorted out a couple of jobs to make the camping more comfortable. And at that point… we hit the road.
Having talked about a few destinations, we’d settled on the Boso Peninsular the night before setting off. Whilst neither of us really knew quite what to expect there were a few points that drove our decision – we’d get to stop at Umihotaru service station; we’d see the sea; and it would likely be not busy, making our first attempt at “urban camping” a little less stressful.
I’m not quite sure what I was expecting from the ‘Tokyo Aqua Line,’ but it turns out that what I got was a 7km-long tunnel that emerges in the middle of Tokyo Bay and continues to the other side of the bay as a bridge. What was slightly surreal was that a rest stop has been constructed at the point where the road turns from a tunnel into a bridge in the middle of nowhere. The developers have managed to build something that looks something like a cross between a ship and an airport. Good to finally get to see the sea though!
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