I woke up on the beach this morning, headed off then got brekky at Seicomart. I made really good ground most of the day. The summer here in Hokkaido is infested with insects and I swear I was almost swallowing a dragonfly every 2 seconds during some points. I was approaching my goal pretty early, so I figured I'd turn down a side street and check out some more hidden areas. I descended into a bay that looked kinda cool. From there I went to go back up the other side, over the mountain, but the road was closed... Like that would ever stop me! It was really steep though and I was doing zig zags up a lot of it. Not only that, but I was too slow to outpace the insects that were increasingly getting more and more annoying. Then at one point the road stopped being pavement and started being gravel. Then just straight pebbles, to the point where my feet were slipping as I walked up it. Oh yeah, by this point I just fully gave up trying to cycle it, the gravel/pebble was way too difficult for my bike. At one point a guy on a dirtbike passed me the other way, making me think that although this isn't a publicly open road, it must be an offroading trail. The top magically turned to pavement again, which meant that I could descend down on my bike and not walk the descent The campsite I stayed at was behind another beach. I said hi to two bikepackers who honestly were not that friendly (Australians 🙄) and got my dinner from Seicomart. By the way, worst convenience store ever! The guy was so rude and refused to hear up my food.