[RIDGELINE] Start With a Walk

Ridgeline subscribers —

I like the blue skies of early January Kanto Japan. It’s usually warm, certainly in the sun. Looking out at that winter ocean heals a feral heart. Starting the year off with a mega walk is never a bad idea. Muscles, ya got ‘em. Legs, they work. So, that’s how this year started.

Trained to Misaki-guchi — a cute little town on the tip of the Miura Peninsula. Then from there: A bus into the village proper. (The train drops you quite a ways away from the fun.) Eight years ago a friend and I stayed at a hostel in town on December 30, and then walked the whole way back up to Kamakura. This year, us — a group of dorks — got up “early”-ish and took the train, took the bus on January 2. Nothing was open. Conbini coffee and snacks standing in the that winter light in the center of town. Then: The walk.