Last Friday was a national holiday, so I took off to the mountains again, this time with my mountain bike jammed in the back of my ridiculously small K-car. I drove up a new way (the other side of the mountain) which took twice as long, but with spectacular views! I found two waterfalls, and two monkeys (ugly buggers—I’ve always held the delusion that monkeys are cute, but Japanese Snow Monkeys are quite ugly and evil too. They mug tourists!) Anyway, I got some good mountain-biking in before retreating to my mountain onsen for a few hours. . . after which I amused many people in the parking lot by battling to get the bike back into the car. . .