Walks - I 💜 Wasting Ink

Hokkaido, Japan (2022)

Map of Hokkaido with the route I walked in 2022 highlighted.

Start: August 22, 2022 — Nemuro, Hokkaido
End: September 14, 2022 — Wakkanai, Hokkaido
Distance: ~640 kilometers

The second part of my circumambulation of Japan, on the same calendar day and from the same place where I left off in 2017. My brother Gabor Orosz joined me for the first half, until Abashiri, from there I walked alone. I wrote a series of longer dispatches from the road called Human Again.

Chūgoku (Western Honshu), Japan (2019)

Map of Western Honshu with the route I walked in 2019 highlighted.

Start: October 30, 2019 — Shūzan, Ukyō Ward, Kyōto
End: November 10, 2019 — Matsue, Shimane
Distance: ~420 kilometers

A walk across the prefectures of Kyōto, Hyōgo, Tottori, and a bit of Matsue; about half of the region called Chūgoku, which is the part of Honshu west of Osaka and Kyōto. This was immediately after the month I spent re-thatching an old farmhouse in Kyōto, which will be the subject of my second book, A Something Like Piece. Apart from a few pictures I posted to Glass, I didn’t publish anything about this journey. It was mostly an effort to clear my mind, something I failed at.

Shikoku, Japan (2019)

Map of Shikoku with the route I walked in 2019 highlighted.

Start: January 24, 2019 — Cape Gamōda, the easternmost point of Shikoku
End: February 8, 2019 — Cape Sada, the westernmost point of Shikoku
Distance: ~500 kilometers

This is the walk that became the subject of The Wilds of Shikoku, my first book. I re-traced the steps of Alan Booth, as I reconstructed them from the book This Great Stage of Fools, who walked across Shikoku in May and June 1983. My friend Gyula Simonyi accompanied me halfway across the island, from there I walked alone to Cape Sada. You can read all about this walk if you buy my book about it.