![]() ![]() ![]() So walking the pilgrimage was a complete break with her miserable everyday life aimed at turning that life around. The hook came very early in the book when the author recounts how she was depressed, overweight, unemployed and wanted to turn her life around. The Henro Michi is 1200 k and more mountainous than flat. ![]() And that was only after walking a measly 400 odd k and only crossing one smallish mountain range. Now 11 years ago, when I came back from walking the Camino, I swore on all things holy that I would never, ever, walk more than 5 kilometres at a time. By Lisa Dempster Reading this book made me want to walk the Henro Michi, an arduous 88-temple Buddhist pilgrimage through the mountains of Japan's Shikoku Island (according to the blurb on the back cover of the book). ![]()
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