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Wow! We are many in one (ourselves) bits of this and that - languages, loves - things tested/achieved. I'm currently in The Riverina (southern inland New South Wales - where I began teaching half-a-century ago - old students from to-morrow. There are any number of books on the 88-temple pilgrimage - in English. The couple I have at home are already 13 years or so old. NZ man Craig McLachlan wrote Summer Henro about 20 years ago - an irreverent but funny telling of his walk in a typical dreadful humid hot Japanese summer. I did it from the spring equinox on - March 20-April 20. Averaging around 40 km per day (limits on my finances pushed me) but it was a marvellous experience. Other books are guides to the temples/accommodation/the meanings of rituals etc. It's a lot of up and down - many of the temples are upwards from the coastal edges - as befits a temple of course - that climb towards spiritual fulfilment - not quite the level of the peaks you are experienced in climbing ... Hajimemashite - dōzo yoroshiku, onegai-itashimasu! I think just "search-engine" The 88-temple Pilgrimage - guide books...you would find what you wished as a brief description - either to whet your further interest or not! There is a walk across the Southern Alps of New South Wales from the southern edges of the national capital Canberra/nearby Yass - across the Alps into north-eastern Victoria - The Hume & Hovell Trail (you could have a look at that. A kinsman worked as part of the team setting it out 20+ years ago... Everything depends on this Covid being brought under control in any case - still we humankind like to set targets, make plans...n'est-ce pas! Jim
thanks Jim. I'll have a look at the 88 temple pilgrimage for sure. You've also go me interested in the Hume & Hovell. I hitch-hiked through that area a bit about 30 years ago. Does my memory serve me right - there's a giant sheep statue by Wagga Wagga?
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Lee
You might try this book by Robert C Sibley The Way of the 88 Temples: Journeys on the Shikoku Pilgrimage. I thought it was quite good.
Thanks Nancy. I've had a look through the reviews on that one and added it to my TBR list.
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Wow! We are many in one (ourselves) bits of this and that - languages, loves - things tested/achieved. I'm currently in The Riverina (southern inland New South Wales - where I began teaching half-a-century ago - old students from to-morrow. There are any number of books on the 88-temple pilgrimage - in English. The couple I have at home are already 13 years or so old. NZ man Craig McLachlan wrote Summer Henro about 20 years ago - an irreverent but funny telling of his walk in a typical dreadful humid hot Japanese summer. I did it from the spring equinox on - March 20-April 20. Averaging around 40 km per day (limits on my finances pushed me) but it was a marvellous experience. Other books are guides to the temples/accommodation/the meanings of rituals etc. It's a lot of up and down - many of the temples are upwards from the coastal edges - as befits a temple of course - that climb towards spiritual fulfilment - not quite the level of the peaks you are experienced in climbing ... Hajimemashite - dōzo yoroshiku, onegai-itashimasu! I think just "search-engine" The 88-temple Pilgrimage - guide books...you would find what you wished as a brief description - either to whet your further interest or not! There is a walk across the Southern Alps of New South Wales from the southern edges of the national capital Canberra/nearby Yass - across the Alps into north-eastern Victoria - The Hume & Hovell Trail (you could have a look at that. A kinsman worked as part of the team setting it out 20+ years ago... Everything depends on this Covid being brought under control in any case - still we humankind like to set targets, make plans...n'est-ce pas! Jim
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thanks Jim. I'll have a look at the 88 temple pilgrimage for sure. You've also go me interested in the Hume & Hovell. I hitch-hiked through that area a bit about 30 years ago. Does my memory serve me right - there's a giant sheep statue by Wagga Wagga? Best,
Lee
You might try this book by Robert C Sibley The Way of the 88 Temples: Journeys on the Shikoku Pilgrimage. I thought it was quite good.
Thanks Nancy. I've had a look through the reviews on that one and added it to my TBR list.
