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Well, I’m happy to be off on another walk and equally appreciating doing it somewhere foreign to what I’d typically see. Initially my plan was to walk the entire Henro trail, (750 miles) but it just isn’t in the cards to complete it this year. Between transit, weather, and maybe a couple days off I might squeeze in around 4 full weeks of actual walking. Depending on how things go, I’m hoping to at least finish half of this adventure
On our first day of walking, we made it to 7 temples. We covered a little over 14.5 miles which wasn’t bad considering we landed in Tokushima at 8:45am. At time of writing this, I just finished taping up a few spots on my feet where I am expecting a blister here soon. As seen below, I met with Philip from Australia to walk the Henro. He was a friend I made walking the Camino (Spain) a few year back.
Japan has got to be the Vending machine capital of the world. These things are everywhere and they are also proving to be very useful on this walk. I’m undecided if this is going to be a very quiet/secluded walk, or if us starting a little late today at the beginning restricted up from seeing other pilgrims. At the temples we saw quite a few people being schlepped in an out on a bus, but almost no one out walk. Maybe because it is Sunday that everything was so quiet, but our food today was a split between vending machines or 7 eleven.
On top of that, everything seemed closed or possibly not located where our paths goes. As we were leaving temple number 7 and looking for our accommodations, we realized that they were almost 2 kilometers away from our trail. It was frustrating when we finally arrived to find out the place we book several months ago, was full.
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