date: 2021-04-26T06:10:06+09:00

title: "Beginning to walk again: Day Eleven"

Good morning from みどりの村キャムプ場, which has a pretty nice setup of bungalows and such. Not much food in the camp area, but a coveni is outside the property.

Feelings slightly nervous about engaging the mountains. it’s definitely colder here, and apparently 10 degrees C at the place I will be for tomorrow night.

Regarding the phone saga, they will send a new phone to the place I will be Tuesday night.

Mountains and hills coming soon to a walk near me!

Now it’s time to pack!!

date: 2021-04-26T11:13:59+09:00

title: "Quiz: what is this?"

Quiz: what is this? Not the cloud, the black surface on the ground.

date: 2021-04-26T12:13:59+09:00

title: "Went through my first tunnel"

My first tunnel!

Fortunately I had earplugs

Back into reality

date: 2021-04-26T14:11:09+09:00

title: "Little Road after Akane Tunnel"

Past the tunnel, I turned left on a little street which I assume was here long before the tunnel.

Lots of interesting things to see, including some free cedar logs!

don’t throw rubbish here. This character will be sad if you do!

I could not see anything on this sign (but dirt)

Ya might want to turn here

I wonder how this tree was shattered. I would guess lightning but I don’t see scorch marks

Found an opportunity for a selfie

Ya might want to ignore this sign

I thought these small ferns were cute

I guess this cart plans to stay here a while

From where does this water come?

François at construction site

The first little road ended here

start of the second little road

Apple trees, prepping to make apples

Looking back at the start of the third little road

Blue roof and yellow flowers

This hill looks positively pointy.. I wonder what the tip is like when standing there?

Red roof within apple orchards

cute pond and concrete for what? I wanted to put François on it, but decided it was too far away from the edges of the pond to do safely, and the locals might wonder what I was doing..

I tried to get the cloud reflection here

date: 2021-04-26T14:14:14+09:00

title: "François on pallets of crushed cans"

Hang on.. is that a recycling center?

Indeed it is!

François would like to have a seat here

I believe these are steel cans

I think these are for oil

How do they collect this many of the same type of can?

rusted cans hmm I wonder how long these have been here

date: 2021-04-26T15:45:18+09:00

title: "Arrived in Yumotokan Day 11"

Yay just arrived in Yumotokan. The host said the onsen is very hot.

Lots of pics on the way here, but first wash feet, contact Jason, maybe have dinner with him.

Oh, maybe I can start them uploading… oh but I want to name the photos.

I can pop them up to cloud and deal with them “later”, hopefully sooner!

Here are the paper maps I used to walk today. Most of them have segments labeled with the number of (left) footsteps I took during each segment.

date: 2021-04-26T18:41:09+09:00

title: "Day 11 finished (photos)"

Old school fire hydrant

Fancy new curb caught my eye. Why was this section redone?

This may be a manhole cover of an eggplant carrying a telescope.

A bridge for Akane

I thought these leaves were cute and wish I had made them more visible. It was quite sunny therefore difficult to see what the screen was seeing

François on a truck scale

We have walked quite a bit!

Wow that solar panel is big for just one support..

Oh it rotates and tilts to follow the sun!

It made small adjustments every 30 seconds or so

Flowers

Rivers

What does this say?

Here was the plan for Day Eleven