It’s fitting that the first episode we watch after the end of our trip is about endings, specifically the bridge-and-dam tour. We camped for a couple of nights in remote Alpine County, CA using a lifted 4×4 to access a couple of gorgeous campsites in the mountains.
We watched the ISS transit the night sky, saw an extremely rare aurora, and got a clear view of the Milky Way once the moon set. In true Yuru Camp fashion we even went to a local nautral hot spring, and got a little fancy with dinner on the second night.
After a sumptuous breakfast of ham-and-cream cheese canapés, our camp gals head to the next suspension bridge, which is Nadeshiko’s first. She’s scared of the wobbliness and 8m height, but Rin and Ayano have braved far worse. The two also exhibit just what fast friends they’ve become when Nadeshiko surprises them with a selfie and they strike a coordinated pose.
As Ayano meets Nadeshiko’s train friends and observes her rapport with Rin, she remembers how scared and lonely Nadeshiko felt when they parted ways. Ayano assured her she’d make friends—she likens Nady to a dog: everybody loves her and she loves walkies—and sure enough she did. Not just ordinary friends, but good ones like Rin, something Ayano confirmed while they biked together and survived the Bridge of Hell.
When Ayano tries but can’t quite commit to a quick goodbye, she joins the others for one more bridge. It’s not a suspension bridge, but it is the world’s longest footbridge, and it affords them a new view of their old friend Fuji-san. Its iconic snow cap serves as a perfect capper to a fun, chill, and different camping trip, one in which Nadeshiko mixed solo and group camping and may have found her calling in “train camping.”
Ayano also assures both Nady and Rin that wherever they’d like to go camping next time, she’ll be there on her bike … after resting her road-weary body, of course. Nady gets home late, but the bittersweetness of a finished trip soon gives way to excitement over where she’ll go next, and who she’ll go with.
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