Preparation

Aikido this morning was fun. I am starting to feel like I am getting the hang of it: I'm finding my ki. I was there for 2.5 hours again, and am starting to make a few friends (I think). The English/Japanese language barrier is still posing problems, especially since Aikido has a very specific vocabulary.

I have spent the rest of the day not doing anything interesting. A little washing in preparation for tomorrow. We have finalised our journey plan and we have most of the accommodation sorted. For the other places, we will just turn up and ask around for a good place, of which there is likely to be one. I created a map of our journey plan for the next 10 days, which can be found here. The places with numbers in brackets after them are places we are stopping at, as opposed to passing through points.