I ๐Ÿ’œ Wasting Ink โ†’ Diaries โ†’ These Walking Dreams โ†’ Day 126 (August 16, 2017)

๐Ÿ™ Kushiro, Hokkaido โ†’ Konbumori, Hokkaido

Map of Hokkaido with authorโ€™s route from Kushiro to Konbumori highlighted. ๐Ÿ—บ Open map in GaiaGPS โ†’

View of a small city from a bridge across a wide river. ๐Ÿ“ Kushiro, Hokkaido

People throng a seafood stall at a market.

Frozen flatfish in a wooden crate.

A lunch bowl of very colorful raw seafood: yellow sea urchin, pink shrimp, various pink and yellow fish, white squid, white-yellow crab. ๐Ÿ“ Kushiro Washล Market, Hokkaido

Oh God, not another fucking beautiful rainbow of a seafood bowl, to paraphrase Alice de Janzeฬ from White Mischief.

Fireworks explode in the night sky above a small city.

Many of the characters from the film My Neighbor Totoro on a trellis. ๐Ÿ“ Kushiro, Hokkaido

These Walking Dreams is a visual field diary of a 4,300-kilometer walk from one end of Japan to the other, in the spring and summer of 2017.

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