I sneaked into my sleeping bag, when it started to rain.
A gusty wind kept me from sleeping.
Around 11 pm, I noticed some water on a floorsheet of my tent.
Wind was so gusty that rain was getting into my tent.
For a while I was fighting against wind and rain.
Fanned by a strong wind, the fly sheet was flapped and two stakes were gone with the wind.
It took me about 5 minutes to find them.
It was dark at midnight.
While I was searching for the stakes, the floor of the tent was tottaly wet.
Finally I gave up camping out.
I escaped into an apartment house nearby, where I kept away from rain and wind.
I put everything together inside the door of the apartment.
Everything was wet, wet, wet.
I was waiting for the dawn without sleeping.
Around 4 am, I started running again, cold rain and strong wind still annoyed me.
Felt as if I was running in the winter rain.
When I stopped, I couldn't stop shivering.
There was no shelter in the wilderness.
But I kept going until I got to Akkeshi at 2 pm.
I rushed into a small inn near the staiton.
Fortunately, bathroom is available 24 hours a day.
So I had a wonderful moment in a hot bath for a while.
How lucky I had been to have survived this hardship...
*Distance today: 29.1 miles (46.8km)
*Total distance from Wakkanai: 337.7 miles (543.4km)
More photos on KAY'S BLOG
http://kaytaka.blog35.fc2.com/blog-entry-2003.html
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