Today’s deck is the Tarot de Euskalherria.
This is the OTHER deck from the author of the Gran Tarot Mistico, the latest one, even. One meant to be more modern… 90s modern at least.
Today’s reading advises that clarity of mind is nurtured by honor and courage.
I mean I’m a sucker for cheesy advice like that, I’ll take it.
So of course, I leave when the weather gets nice again, when the skies are clear and such.
Didn’t have much time to think after waking up so I brushed my teeth and headed down.
By the way, I’ve forgotten to mention this, but this room supposedly had a big bed, it was actually just two beds put together.
“What difference does it make?” You might wonder, and the main thing is that I tend to sleep, like… diagonally so the seam between mattresses got me.
Taxi arrived and thus began the long road to Nagano station which was still shorter than the more roundabout road to Nagano Station via train.
Small detail but interesting to me, the driver had to take out the chains in the tires because we moved into regular highway. It’s interesting to me because I remember keeping an eye for tire chains all through the tip and never seeing them because I expected the chains to be… bigger I guess.
Also, Fun Fact: Venezuelan highways have a pit in the middle because the idea is that when it snows you can push all the snow into it… however being a country where the four season are permutations of Hot/Hotter and Wet/Dry, the only thing that ends in that pit are weeds, roadkill, and cars that lose control.
One time I remember a car ended upside down with the cabin neatly slotted in there and to this day I wonder how the fuck that happened.
Back to my trip on the other side of the world, I got to the station and it was FULL, I knew I had to get my tickets now or God knows when I’d be boarding the train… I haven’t had breakfast by now by the way.
The route I had to take was one non-reserved from Nagano to Tokyo and then a transfer from Tokyo to Osaka.
And I almost lost the first train becuase I took the wrong stairs, thankfully I made it when the trian just arrived and I got a seat… which thank GOD because the train was SO FULL that people were standing on the hallway like this was some bus in my homeland.
Thankfully by Omiya the amount of people reduced to a normal point… but then came the part where I had to rush to the transfer because I made it with barely 5 minutes to spare between trains.
But I made it dang it, still haven’t eaten anything by the way.
Well, that’s not entirely true, I did have a snack on my backpack that at the very least stopped my stomach from complaining.
I skidaddle my way home and when I was thinking about heading out again to get food I thankfully remembered that Uber Eats exists.
Rest of the day is a blur, but at least my mailbox wasn’t imploding… not as much as usual after a trip at least.