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6. Oarai - Tomakomai 17.08.13

7. Tomakomai - Iwamizawa 18.08.13

8. Iwamizawa - Azahikawa 19.08.13

9. Azahikawa - Kamikawa 20.08.13

10.Kamikawa - Nukabira Onsen 21.08.13

11.Nukabira Onsen - Tokachigawa 22.08.13

12.Tokachigawa - Kushiro 23.08.13

13.Kushiro - Shibesha 24.08.13

14.Shibesha - Lake Kussharo 25.08.13

15.Lake Kussharo - Lake Akan 26.08.13

16.Lake Akan - Abashiri 27.08.13

17.Abashiri 28.08.13

18.Abashiri - Sapporo (tog) 29.08.13

19.Sapporo - Otaru 30.08.13

20.Otaru - Kamoenai 31.08.13

21.Kamoenai - Makkari 01.09.13

22.Makkari - Yakumo 02.09.13

23.Yakumo - Hakodate 03.09.13

24.Hakodate - Aomori 04.09.13

25.Aomori - Lake Towada 05.09.13

26.Lake Towada - Lake Tazawa 06.09.13

27.Lake Tazawa - Hanamaki 07.09.13

28.Hanamaki - Tsukidate 08.09.13

29.Tsukidate - Sendai 09.09.13

30.Sendai - Tone 10.09.13

31.Tone 11.09.13

32.Tone 12.09.13

33.Tone - Kurihama 13.09.13

34.Kurihama - Hakone 14.09.13

35.Hakone - Gotemba 15.09.13

36.Gotemba 16.09.13

37.Gotemba - Fujinomiya 17.09.13

38.Fujinomiya - Shizuoka (Kyoto) 18.09.13

39.Kyoto 19.09.13

40.Kyoto 20.09.13

41.Kyoto 21.09.13

42.Kyoto - Nara 22.09.13

43.Nara - Wakayama 23.09.13

44.Wakayama - Higashikagawa 24.09.13

45.Higashikagawa - Takamatsu 25.09.13

46.Takamatsu - Iya Valley 26.09.13

47.Iya Valley 27.09.13

48.Iya Valley - Imabari 28.09.13

49.Imabari - Onomichi 29.09.13

50.Onomichi - Hiroshima 30.09.13

51.Hiroshima 01.10.13

52.Hiroshima - Takayama (tog) 02.10.13

53.Takayama 03.10.13

54.Takayama - Matsumoto 04.10.13

55.Matsumoto - Hakuba 05.10.13

56.Hakuba - Nagano 06.10.13

57.Nagano - Tone 07.10.13

58.Tone 08.10.13

59.Tone - Narita 09.10.13

60. Narita - CPH 10.10.13

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Letter 35

 

Sunday 15.09.13    32,68 km

 

It's still time for miracles. We felt the typhoon was on its way all through the night. It has been hard rain for hours, and I set my mind to go across the pass in the rain.

I waited as long as I could. Half past nine I decided it was meaningless to wait any longer, and the moment I set off the rain ceased! How lucky can you be?

Compared to yesterday the last 3 km was nothing, but the pass is actually 1.009 m!



That was what could be seen of Gotemba from the pass

Through the tunnel I new should be there and then an unpleasant descent - and I was in Gotemba.

The typhoon should hit Shizuoka in the late afternoon/evening and it will still be raining tomorrow morning, they say here. I've booked a room in the Inter Hotel a bit away for 5.500 Y included breakfast and wi-fi. In the tourist info they always suggests hotels around the station. You have to be stubborn to make them think otherwise.

The wind has started to blow here in front of the station, where I'm eating my lunch, but it's sunshine and driving clouds.

If I've got the wheather forecast right, we had 350 mm's of rain through out the night. The worst hit areas had 600 mm! Can that be true? It's almost what we get in Denmark in a whole year!

So now it's time to wait...

I set out to find Route 138, which I intend to follow tomorrow, if ....
And I have got a perfect map of Fuji and the surroundings. The first 20 km will be going up on Route 138, but then big parts should be quite flat. There are 5 famous lakes.


       This should have been a beautiful photo of Mt. Fuji

When I go out to buy some dinner everything is calm. The wind has ceased, it's still before storm...

They don't speak of anything but the typhoon on channel 11, which seems always to be the local channel. In Hokkaido they talked about Hokkaido, and here it's all about Kensai, which I now know is the name of this area.


 

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