More Friends, Onsen, and Imperfection

Yesterday was pretty amazing. It felt like so much didn’t go to plan and yet, it was incredible.

Watch told the wrong time which meant we missed the bus. Met others at the bus stop. Two women. One from the Netherlands, another from Australia. The Golf Coast. Of course. Small world. Suddenly we had a walking partner.

Actually, partners plural. The Dutch woman was just doing a bus tour, but the Australian lady, Estella, had been walking with Tracey, a Canadian who had scared the life out of us two days earlier when we stopped for food and she emerged with pace from over the hill.

Literally as I write this the next morning they hop on to our bus. We thought we lost them yesterday. For good. Many hours enjoyed together, then gone the next moment, likely never to be seen again. But yet, things work out.

things to add: missing sock, poorly heated food, missed our friends at the bar, ran into Chinese friends, ran into British friends again, on send was amazing, left the key in my pocket, just walked straight into the unseen, random man that followed us around, many things went wrong – but did they really? It all works out in the end.