Bicycling Japan: D10-D13

Day 10-13: Uncle Gann's Island (no biking)

So. Uncle Gann's Island. He found it while looking for a place to make traditional wooden Japanese boats. The art of making these boats is dying so he wanted to contribute to the movement of keeping it alive and hired a carpenter with the knowledge. He's had quite a few made and has and donated them to universities and kept some for people to look at. He built his "summer home" on the island with the intention of making it a place where students could come and study boat making, etc. It's like, amazing. And the island is like, amazing. We ate, drank, slept, and ate again, went sea-shell hunting, kayaking, and walked around the island (which takes about 45 minutes).

All around really pampering and it made me really soft and really wary of continuing our trip!!! Thanks Uncle Gann.

Uncle Gann's friends who own a dairy farm in Fukushima also came to visit. They were super fun and we had many entertaining nights.

Ushima, Uncle Gann's house on the right. He designed it himself. 

 

There are all these little islands surrounding Ushima with interesting statues and buildings from the old days. 

Uncle Gann with "breakfast"

He can be a bit crazy at times.

Enjoying the view (through the window)

The OMFG biggest spider ever. GROSS.

Yes, we drank all that. And then some.

Hard to see, but one of Uncle Gann's Japanese boats.

Uncle Gann's organic lemon orchard. To the left is a neighbor's garden. She's 81 and tends to it all on her own.