Our camping road trip was a success! I'm not so sure that I deserve a wilderness survival badge or anything, but I weathered the elements with only limited wimpering and had a great time. (I brought my mini clapotis* along to keep me warm, of course). My mind is reeling just thinking of all the great things we got to do and see in Shikoku. I'm so glad we went! I'll be sorting through our hundreds of photos and probably posting some good ones soon.

Unfortunately my "heaps" of knitting time turned out to be more like 10 minutes when we were sitting at a roadblock waiting for a mountain road to re-open so we could pass through. Note to self: knitting on windy mountain roads makes me carsick, don't forget! I'm exhausted and I've got a cold, but I have NEVER been happier to be home. I plan to spend a lot of time log-cabining to recover.

*If you're wondering about my mini clapotis, I simply cut back on the number of increases in section two of the pattern to make it a little bit narrower and suit the limited amount of yarn that I had. I did 5 increase rows instead of 7, and knit the straight part until I had my desired length and was running out of yarn. I also used smaller needles to get gauge that I liked with my yarn. Pretty simple!