- so today is day eightof our trip. - mm-hmm. - it feels a lot longerthan that. - starting to get used to reallythe grind. - at the end of the day,my feet always hurt.
Kotohiragu Shrine, but i think i've gotten usedto that. feiler: jenn tsai and alex fuare from cleveland, ohio. they've come to shikokuin southern japan to walk the 800-mile pathof buddhist pilgrims,
a journey that can takemore than a month. - we've really figured out how to enjoy the little thingsthat we see. just meeting up with randompeople alongside the road. konnichiwa. - on the third day,we were scaling the mountain up to temple 12. feiler: jenn and alexhave recently graduated from medical schooland are about to become doctors.
like many pilgrims, they are at a time of transitionin their lives. one of the things that you readabout is the idea of miracles, that people have come heresick in some way, and they were cured. okay, so you've just finishedmedical school. do you believe in miracles? - in terms of miracles thati'm expecting out of this trip, not really expectinga miracle per se, but hopefully
i'll gain something in termsof personal growth. that would be my miracle,i guess. - i think there's always room for things that can't beexplained. there's a whole bunch ofunexpected things that happen on a journey like this. and i'm expecting thatthere will be things that i can't explain and that i canjust appreciate, and, you know, realize that's fine.
it's only day eight,and i feel like we've already seen so much, learned so much,met so many people. - it's hard to imagine... - what the rest of this journeywill be like. - exactly. - notes from the fieldwas made possible by: funding for the series "sacred journeyswith bruce feiler" was provided by:
- so today is day eightof our trip. - mm-hmm. - it feels a lot longerthan that. - starting to get used to reallythe grind. - at the end of the day,my feet always hurt.
Kotohiragu Shrine, but i think i've gotten usedto that. feiler: jenn tsai and alex fuare from cleveland, ohio. they've come to shikokuin southern japan to walk the 800-mile pathof buddhist pilgrims,
a journey that can takemore than a month. - we've really figured out how to enjoy the little thingsthat we see. just meeting up with randompeople alongside the road. konnichiwa. - on the third day,we were scaling the mountain up to temple 12. feiler: jenn and alexhave recently graduated from medical schooland are about to become doctors.
like many pilgrims, they are at a time of transitionin their lives. one of the things that you readabout is the idea of miracles, that people have come heresick in some way, and they were cured. okay, so you've just finishedmedical school. do you believe in miracles? - in terms of miracles thati'm expecting out of this trip, not really expectinga miracle per se, but hopefully
i'll gain something in termsof personal growth. that would be my miracle,i guess. - i think there's always room for things that can't beexplained. there's a whole bunch ofunexpected things that happen on a journey like this. and i'm expecting thatthere will be things that i can't explain and that i canjust appreciate, and, you know, realize that's fine.
it's only day eight,and i feel like we've already seen so much, learned so much,met so many people. - it's hard to imagine... - what the rest of this journeywill be like. - exactly. - notes from the fieldwas made possible by: funding for the series "sacred journeyswith bruce feiler" was provided by: