continuation..

     Laura continues to attract insects. She acquired a dozen new bites and reacting quite strongly to them. I threaten to put her on prednisone. The good new is that we found an all you can eat Chinese food in Ponferrada.

Who knows when we are going to eat like this again so we ate and ate. All told we needed the calories anyway as we ended up walking 10.5 hours. Not much of our planned distance as we wasted time walking around looking for this restaurant. Add to that, we avoided the rocky descent by taking the asphalted road in the dark. This serpentine road went left and right of the actual trail and easily put us in the mid thirty range for the day.

     We started this journey with our cycling friend Chuck Allgood. We got separated from him for the last two weeks. He rented a bike in Leon and caught up with us on the downhill from Cruz de Ferr. He was all smiles when we saw him. His feet have been in tatters, making it very difficult for him to walk. He finally said enough was enough, gnaws off both feet, attaches some cleats on his stumps, rents a bike and is now happy as a clam riding the bike to Santiago. He plans to rent a car and check out Portugal. I hope he knows it is not so easy to drive a car or walk on wooden floors with cleats.