Preparation
The flights have been booked for the next great adventure! This time it's off to the island of Shikoku in Japan for a 1200km walk around the island visiting 88 famous Buddhist temples. This pilgrimage is 1300 years old. I'm not going to re-write the Wikipedia page for you so you can get all the background here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikoku_Pilgrimage Here is the plan ... Mike, my friend since university and featured in the cycling blogs, and I will try to drag our deteriorating bodies around Shikoku for 52 days and visit the 88 Temples. Yes, we will wear the funny outfits you see in the pictures. Temple number 1 in Shikoku is a few hours by bus from the Osaka airport (KIX) which conveniently gives me a direct flight from San Francisco. The logistics of this one are pretty easy. Japan is very easy to travel around. I have quite a bit of Japan experience and Mike has even more. He also has a wife with an extensive person...