Two Days-Just Over 60km

As soon as I state how good I feel, I get served my biggest lesson on the Camino. All day rain + 30km a day + new overly large untested underwear = all day wedgie friction = raw butt cheeks that burn with every step. Sorry about that tmi vivid description but that is the best way to illustrate how quick my downfall came. Each step came with a price and the price came early with my first step this morning and peaked with my shower this evening.

Laura's knee decided to give out at a steep hill after 24km. We took a break to bandage her knee and then we ambled on, slowly and painfully. There seems to be a rule in the Camino, the last 6km is always twice farther and takes three times longer than the first 6km. Today seemed even worst, how the mighty fall!

Nancy on the other hand is getting stronger each day. Not just physically but in every other aspect as well. She is already thinking of her next walking trip. We left her at her hotel which is 6km away from our place. She will start her final leg to Santiago by herself and we will meet her there, 17km on her own and that includes navigating to her hotel. If anyone knows her sense of direction, this is a HUGE undertaking for her and no one is more proud than her present son-in-law. I, of course, will not hear the end of it from Laura should this plan not work.

We are only 10km away from Santiago and Laura and I will find a way to walk there. After 700 km we will not succumb to the last 10. Friends await our arrival as well as the much anticipated pilgrim's noon mass in the great Santiago cathedral.