day 19, 7:30pm, snakes!

today was an easy 24km. i walked most of it with another henro, a 24 yr.old from kyoto. we talked all day but i still don't know his name. everyone just calls each other "o-henro-san". the relationships are so fleeting on the trail that names rarely get exchanged.

we're both staying at the same place tonight, so i'll get his name eventually.

we're about 6km west of temple 39. if everything goes well tomorrow, it's about 30km to temple 40 and a free room.

today was a day of snakes. snake count is 17. and i think i might have seen my first habu (the deadly one). it had a very triangular head and a very fat/stout body. it looked very much like a small adder. couldn't get a picture. :(

i did get one of a black snake. i tried to get in close, but this is the best i could do. and that's at about 4ft. away.
night