It's early Friday, June 14. Yesterday we walked another 13 miles, with 11 more planned for today, and 15 miles for Saturday. We weren't able to get our blog out yesterday as we typically do because the combination of being wiped out, and late dinners got the best of us and we feel asleep. Thursday's walk was the easiest of the four so far. However, we are rising early and getting to bed late. We typically arrive in a town near the end siesta time, but don't take a siesta ourselves.
Thursday started rainy, as some of the pictures show. By 11:30 the sun had come out and the day ended beautifully. Our walk was mostly through forested areas so it was a little different than the previous days, but the countryside was beautiful just the same.
One of the things we do on our walk is to get stamps on our Camino passport. Many of the businesses and churches along the way offer stamps to show where you have been. At the end of our walk, we show our passport, and if we have walked at least 100 km, and have had our passport stamped at least twice a day, we are entitled to receive a certificate, or "Compostela", that verifies our feat. One of the pictures shows what our passport looks like right now.
We're getting ready for breakfast, but hope to get another blog out after today's walk. We are anticipating a shorter, easier walk today, and the the forecast calls for sun all day, but even though we run and are in pretty good shape, theses walks can be quite tiring. The first few days took us over some steep inclines and declines. Going downhill is especially hard on the feet. We are doing ok, but several people have ended up with pretty bad blisters.
Hope to get another blog out tonight,
Gib
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