Day 21: Walking Day

Short post today. As long as this beer lasts me. Connor and I decided we were pushing a little too hard to maintain the schedule I had originally put together for the pilgrimage. We’ve had three long days in a row and our feet are killing us, so we’ve spent the last hour and a half dividing the next four days into five days. It took a lot of juggling between distances and what inns were on the route. There are stretches in the pilgrim route where there are no lodging, so you have to decided between a really short day and a really long day. My original plan had a series of long days before any respite and it didn’t appear to be sustainable. My feet feel like concrete and the beer has not yet kicked in. At least we have lodging for the next two nights reserved.

We continued our march down to Cape Ashizuri and skirted Kuroshio Town through a large forested recreational area called Tosa Seinan Great Park Ogata Area. We decided we were enjoying the cool wind and stayed in the forest rather than skirting out to the beach.

Coming out of the south side of the Park, we noted numerous high school age students on … ah, screw it. I’m tired. Here’s some pictures from the day. We walked. A lot. “Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”