walkabout-japan

Day 46
If I the sea see, need ` I no sea more
GPS: N 34 °, 29.517 ' E 136 °, 41,150 '
Place: Ise
Etmal: 23 km
Total: 1,031 km
"All towns are similar" comes into my mind when I have a
look at the clock with my gummed up eyes. It's 5.15 a.m. and two idiots are playing tennis on a parking place 50 m far away in the twilight, because ... now the place's free. A few minutes later the "dog-shit-armada" is coming. Dozing I'm thinking about the last night in Ise. I was lying awake in my open tent and had my own "TV-program". In front of me surreal scenery happened. On the bridge over the river the car caravan was standing again in both directions - a red one and a white one. Above all, like an UFO, there was the brightly enlightened fuelling station where I got my water from. Roaring music echoes over the river as well as the permanent ringing of the station mobile (over loudspeaker!). 50 m beside the tent a roaring drunken guy plays Miles Davis with his saxophone -
it's pretty beautiful. Above all you can hear the rumbling Wuuppp Wuuupp of the NDF Apachee fight helicopters practicing over the mountains. Much later the maniacs
(without exhaust pipes) were doing again races on the bridge because.... now it's free.... 22.012 steps later... The sun goes down as a blood-red ball over the sea. I'm lying in the tent on the beach enjoying the rushing of the waves and the passing boats. At least I'm a coastal child. If I can see the sea, I don't need any more oceans. Wonderful!


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