Three Days and Counting!!!

So on the very precipice of our leaving, only then can passports go missing, people with hyperthyroidism can give me the news that they are no longer on their maintenance medication, and the finance wizards in Japan can boldly announce that the yen will prove stronger against the dollar and should settle somewhere around 50 yen to the buck. The shugyo literally begins before the actual journey of the 88 temples. However, it can't be as nerve wracking as Kobo Daishi awaiting word if he was going to China along with the Fujiwara embassy, and I tell myself this.