Oh my gosh my foot hurts ten times worse after the doctor cut the splinter out.

Summary of today

• Day Seven (Thursday April 22nd *) Part 1:
  9am - 11am Walk 9km, From Hotel Spa Mu https://spamu.jp/index.html To Saitama Grand hotel in Honjo (121km walked so far)

1. Mail postcards at Misato Post Office (open 9am - 5pm)

2. Get splinter removed cut out of my foot
3. Eat dinner as the local antisthesia wore off
4. hobble to hotel like omgayfkm
5. client session 7pm
6. go to sleep early

A circular mirror reflected sunlight onto the ground into an oval shape.

花園橋 Hanazono Bridge over Arakawa

Sign describing the reason for construction

河川を利用する皆さまへ

川は、ここで雨が降ってなくても、上流の雨により急激に 川の水位が高くなってくる場合があります。 急に川の水位が濁ったり、ゴミが大量に流れて来た場合などは、 上流で大雨が降っている場合があります。 川を利用される場合には、事前に気象情報などを確認して、 十分周囲して下さい。

These backhoes have red and white pool noodles to let you know how close not they get to their zone of rotation.

Here are the soles of my feet, photos taken last night, at the end of day 6.

These photos were taken at SPAMU

With 7km to go on Day 6, I put my sandals on to walk the rest of the way to SPAMU. My injuries were still painful but much faster as they were not compounding

Struggling along the hot asphalt here, I paused to look up and saw this interesting shot

I came up to a section where the sidewalk was missing…

And I was able to make my way through it even with the construction worker guys there.

I didn’t get a picture of that, but I did get to discover just how hot fresh poured asphalt can be.

Also got a chance to take a picture of François on rabbit shaped barrier holders.

And then the most amazing thing is finding this new manhole cover it hasn’t even had its plastic taken off yet…

Here it is in context with the sidewalk ripped out around it

Francois found the sidewalk!

I saw François on what looks like a new shrine in the middle of somewhere that people wouldn’t see very often..