Yesterday was the yearly trip for お墓参り ( お はかまいり, O hakamairi). For the last 6 years we went by train and bus, but this year my sister-in-law (SIL) thought renting a car and having our son drive would be fun/interesting/cheaper.
So we drove to Peace Park, cleaned up the graves and left offerings to great grandparents.
A very peaceful place, and we got the last of the good weather before the unbearable heat sets in.
The trip by car on the expressway is a much longer rougher ride than by train and bus. I don't want to do that again.
SIL had rented a Toyota AQUA Hybrid ( a PRIUS sized 5 door hatchback), which is bigger than our Keicar, but a compact car in the rest of the world.
Had lunch at a rest stop on the expressway coming back. So many trucks and cars and we got one of the last car parking spaces.
Over 2 hours by car each way, 6 hours total, and I wasn't even driving and was exhausted from being shaken for most of it.
The Kyoto - Nagoya trip uses a couple of different expressways, but there is little to see. Lots of long tunnels through mountains, lots of valleys cut through small mountains with supporting walls each side of the expressway, lots of walled in sections to keep the truck & car noise in when going through more populated areas, and brief sections of construction or villages or forest. The video shows pretty much it for the 2 plus hours in a minute+.
The music was first time using 8 string guitar with the POD Express Black in Reaper. Drums, 2 guitar parts and ambient synthesizer. Lots of Valhalla DSP Delay, Space Modulator and Supermassive.
The video is pretty much a reason to use the music in something.
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