Wednesday March 27, 1991
Arrive in Beppu-shi and take a taxi to my apartment to dump MJN's luggage. Walk over to Jenny's place at Beppu Daigaku, showing MJN all my haunts in downtown Kamegawa. Even though we haven't seen each other much these last ten years, we talk as if we'd left off our conversation yesterday. And Dad must have given us both the same lectures, because we can quote him verbatim. One funny thing is that MJN is completely oblivious to bicyclists coming up behind us. They squeak their brakes to let us know that they're there, but he never jumps out of the way. He says he doesn't hear them, which seems incredible to me.
Jenny has been shopping and has a new stereo system and an electric rug. It feels so warm and snuggly to lie on it, which we do while she makes breakfast. Then we decide to walk up to Kannawa to Hyoutan Spa. Spend the rest of the morning at the baths. First we go to the separate baths and then we meet in the outdoor baths where mixed bathing is allowed. MJN and I walk back to Kamegawa the back way along route 218, past Shibaseki Spa.
Around 5:30, stop by Toyomi for groceries and head home.
Posted by M Sinclair Stevens
March 27, 2003
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Walk through Kamegawa to Jenny's apartment at Beppu Daigaku. The three of us continue up the hill to Hyotan Spa in Kannawa. Walk home. Beppu Koseikan.