Day 69: The beginning of the end
Tomorrow marks the beginning of the last leg of my journey across Japan on foot, through the Fuji Hakone Izu national park and down towards Tokyo. As (bad) luck would have it that last leg threatens to start with a day where I have to go to a backup plan and take a zero. This would not be an ideal way to start towards the finish. What's going on? Well, let me give you a bit of backstory to bring you up to speed. For the last few days I have been battling a nasty stomach bug, the undignified details of which shall not be recorded here. I'm not sure if it's something I ate, or signs of a different illness, but it has left me very limited in my activities and shaken my faith in being kilometers away from the facilities. When I left Fuji yesterday, I was extremely unsure about how to approach covering the distance to my next stop in Mashima. The route was fairly urban, but could still leave me significantly distances from a public toilet, which made me nervous . I sat