day 42, 8:43pm, one more day

thank you everybody for the e-mails. lots of concern and congratulations for me.
well, i'm still feeling a little blah now and then but i'm having no problem holding my food down. i dreamed all day about going to a big salad bar. i could really use a salad. :)
and i haven't finished yet! i'll be closing the loop tomorrow; returning to temple 1.

i don't really know how i feel. today i took a route down that put me back on the trail i walked on my first day. it felt different even though i could remember the sites and the route.

the most interesting part was meeting henro who were going the other way, who had just started.
i wanted to stop and talk to them, to give them a bit of wisdom, but most of them were focused on reaching their next temple, on keeping up to their schedule.
i was like that the first day.

well, i didn't find a nice hut to stay, so i went for a hotel. it's my second last day so i'll treat myself.

i feel like i'd like to do the pilgrimage again, from tomorrow. it was difficult but there is an alure to a life that has such a simple purpose. eat, sleep, walk. i never once woke up in the morning without a sense of purpose. fatigue yes, despair sometimes, but there was always a simple solution, walk.

ok, getting a bit lost in thought and sleepy.

time for bed,
night,