Mountains are getting closer and closer… I guess maybe they’re just tall hills and not really mountains

Wow. This red flowering tree amazed me with its red flowering flowers.

If I lived near here I wonder how often I would try to climb this wall..

Does walking count as slow?

The numbers keep getting higher. Remember, add like 30km to count from Yokohama.

((( Oh and for the record, we still had 2km to walk before getting to the trail we needed to take. )))

Walking along a telephone line or something I saw a place where François can sit

Let’s reflect on how this reflector works.

I guess these are to catch snow..

This is where we transferred from highway 17 to walking on the trails around Mitsukuni Tunnel

Bridge pretty close to Sarugakyo Onsen area

This was taken from the same point I just took the Red bridge picture

916 a.m. approaching the Red bridge

Jason took pics of me on the Red bridge

Built in 1963

Not sure what these are but they sure seen rusty

I’m glad we didn’t go into this abandoned building because I barely made it to my hotel in time for dinner tonight but I did certainly think about going into the building…

I did a few test bounces on the trampoline but it wasn’t strong enough for me to be comfortable doing backflips on it

I wonder what caused the sheet to be lifted up strongly enough to pull these things out of the ground you usually stab it in

Oh my gosh there’s a ladder right there across the highway from us but there’s a bunch of cars going by and I don’t think they would understand why I’m climbing this ladder…

Later I decided these ladders are for the monkeys in the area because the concrete walls are hard to climb.

(the black smear in the photo is a car entering the frame)

Getting started today on day 13 walking toward the trailhead of my entry point over the hills past the tunnel that I can’t go through..

It is late on Day 12 and I just finished uploading Day 9 and Day 11 photos..

Day 12 will have to wait. Day 12 photos have been uploaded to Smugmug for now

https://thunderrabbit.smugmug.com/Travel/Japan/Quests/2021-walk-to-Niigata/Day-12-2021-april-27/

Here was the plan for Day Twelve

Here are thumbnails of the trails I plan to use for Day Thirteen, 28 April 2021:

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