Today was probably the nicest walking day so far – lots of actual trails and a minimum of paved surfaces. There was one big hill at the beginning which led to a lot of huffing, puffing and sweating – it being a nice sunny day, although not too humid. Sam took the liberty of taking off his hiking t-shirt and wringing the sweat out. Fortunately for all concerned this was not captured on video! The steep climb had many distractions in the form of drawings and words of encouragement done as school projects over the course of several years.
View down to Sukumo Words of encouragement…. I think!More giant bamboo
Tonight we are in the town of Ainan, location of Temple 40, Kanjizai-Ji, the geographically most distant temple from Temple 1. The main Temple was rebuilt in the 1960s, so has quite a different feel, but the grounds and other buildings are very tranquil. Today we crossed from the Prefecture of Kochi into Ehime, the Dojo of enlightenment.
The Temple has 8 deities responsible for the Astrological signs. This is Amida Nyorai, deity for both the year of the dog and year of the boar(which would be me!)Another bug photo
In 2009, we embarked on a one-year family sailing adventure aboard a Grand Soleil 39, "SV Mulan". Our original sailing blog is linked on this site.
In 2017, Susan, Andrew, Sam & Max walked the Camino Frances from St-Jean-Pied-de-Porte to Santiago de Compostella (and rode bikes from Burgos to Leon as a blister recovery strategy), and in 2018 Jack also joined the crew as we waled the northern section of the Camino Portuguese from Porto to S de C.
In 2019 Andrew, accompanied by Max for the first few hundred kms, and Susan for the Tiscan section, walked the via francigena from Canterbury to Rome. That journey is blogged in this site.
This blog is planned as an alternative to the endless instagram posts used previously to communicate with those interested in our travels - although there is a linked instagram account as well!
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