Total Distance- 565 Miles/904 Kilometers
Well, I didn’t make it all the way and I figure I fell short of the total distance by about 217 miles. With the amount of time that I had, we really covered a lot of ground though. On average, we walked a little under 19 miles a day for 30 days. It was truly an amazing experience. I met some of the kindest humans on earth.
Not sure when, but I’ll come back someday to finish.
This is the end of the road of my journey for now. I walked to this train station and departed the Henro from here.
One heck of a guy. I’ve never met anybody who will go with the flow more than this guy. Whether it’s excessive blisters, 20 mile days walking in the rain, or feet so sore you can barely stand up anymore, he never once complained. What a great adventure.
Best of luck to you as you push on to the finish line. In this photo, I had left at 4:50 in the morning to start my day trying to make it to temple 59. When Phillip and met up and I got to temple 58, I realized we had 6 km left and one hour to get there. Somewhere around 47 km into my day, it was a little mentally challenging trying to run a 5K after covering that much ground. Somehow, we made it through.
Kobo Daishi- my other hiking buddy
This guy was so cool. I’ll never forget walking down the street in Japan singing Country Roads by John Denver with Sam.
Well, I had already started breaking in the new shoes but the old ones (4 weeks old) had about 500 miles on them. If you think those look bad, you should see my underwear and socks. Don’t worry, I won’t put photos of those. 😳
Just randomly cool landscaping throughout Japan
More miles walking up the coast. I was happy to find this little spot, eating an ice cream cone and cooling off from a very hot day.
Just a typical night eating dinner. I won’t miss sitting on the floor eating though.
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