day 233: 新华镇 (xinhuazhen) – 南华 (nanhua) = 25,4km

Well, it wasn’t exactly pouring cats and dogs out there when I started walking this morning, but it kept drizzling down on me:

…always a bit sideways from the front – it was so disgusting.

Then there was the fact that I just couldn’t seem to get used to this new kind of walking yet.

Greater speed, but sore legs and a strange feeling of fatigue…

Once I sat down on the curb for a little while, when I suddenly decided it was better to lay flat on the ground:

…I woke up after a half hour from the honking of some cars, while others had just rushed by, spraying me with tiny fountains of water.

So I went on through the cloud-covered land:

Scotland, I thought, or Ireland.

(Wales? New Zealand?)

I came by a lake…

…and then a tiny tiny patch of desert:

Then, right about British tea time, the sky suddenly cleared up:

…and I didn’t even feel so tired anymore:

There were the sunflowers again:

…and with them came the happiness of days long gone.

One of them smiled at me:

Hello sunflower, I said, here I am – the tall bearded one with the sore legs.

It’s been more than 20 years.

Soundtrack: Blind Melon – “No Rain”

—total: 2966km