Day 17 Carión de Los Condes- Terra de Los Templatios
Today was a hard day because it was the first day we dealt with rain. We definitely had a few bugs tow work out in our rain gear setup. It was windy and cold and rainy but we pushed through another 26 km. A hot shower was wonderful to get the muscles moving again. Walking with wet feet wasn't such a good thing. At one point we were being nasty to each other and decided that we needed to stop and eat so we had a bag of potato chips and a boiled egg. 
Day 18 Terra de Los Templarios a Calzadia de Los Hermanios
We left this morning at 5:45 and walked a full two hours in pitch dark. We don't have we moonlight anymore with the bad weather. It was cold and windy and threatened to poor down on us every minute. It never did. We had a constant crunching beneath our feat ( see picture above ) . We came into a decent sized town after 13 km of walking and had a decent breakfast and coffee. 
As we walked through the town the church bells were sounding and the air was energetic as it is in stormy weather. It was a good feeling. 
Since we left so early and walked so fast we got in early at around 11:30 am. We started walking with a little group of people, two Danish, two German, an English girl and a guy from Hong Kong who immigrated to San Francisco. They arrived to the rufugio after us and we cooked a big lunch and drank too much wine the all went for siesta. 
After siesta we did it all again sand all cooked dinner together. I made a garlic octopus pasta and Arwyn made salad. We had a good night discussing everything from finding our faith to how to make goat cheese. 
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ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure when (cold wet slog) /// > hot food + good wine + conversation with people of peace = awesome doesn't it? We are praying for you guys.
ReplyDeleteYou two appear to be having an amazing journey. Thanks for bringing us along. Love the rain gear you're sporting, Andrew. I love that at the end of the day, after walking all those miles, you both have a smile on your face!!
ReplyDelete(pssst, Andrew, you're in the wrong country to be playing the Hunchback.) Your comment about octopus pasta reminded me that we have a bag of squid jerky (yes, you read that right) which Ben brought to Papa. Initially Papa was pretty enthusiastic about it . However, thoughts of Fukushima have put the quietus on that. Anybody have a Geiger counter?
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