Day 90: End of the line
I will start writing this final post in Japan, but it won't be finished until I am well beyond its borders. At this moment I am sat on a Russian plane waiting for the last passengers to board before we push back and I make my first brief stop on the long way back home; Moscow. Sadly, it will only be a fast transfer. I won't get a chance to visit. Perhaps another time. But my final destination today will be Warsaw, where I will spend a 10 days before continuing on. As I sit here, with the plane now slowly taxiing to the runway, I am left with a lot of memories and thoughts about my time in Japan. When I arrived three months ago I had such different plans for my time here. I had a detailed plan for a long mountain route following the Tokai Shizen Hodo, an intensive hike with long periods of isolation and plenty of nature around me for days and weeks at a time. I came prepared for lots of camping, lots of hiking, and plenty of time in the woods. A pack f...