It’s already been quite a year: 3,250 miles cycled across the United States, 400 miles cycled across South Korea, two weeks backpacking through Japan, and a 500 mile walk across Spain. I’m not really sure where the time went, but it certainly went by fast. I can still remember planning for all this stuff not […]
Domonick and I have completed another course in the art of bipedal motion. This time it was El Camino 301: A Hike Across the Northern Coast of Spain. At 500 miles, it was my second longest thru-hike and unlike any other hike I’ve gone on. Perhaps that’s just it, it wasn’t really a hike, certainly
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June 1st, 2017 St Irene to Santiago de Compostella Km walked: 23 Km total: 817 Today we walked into Santiago and made our way to the Cathedral of St. James. We arrived at 11:30 and were among hundreds of other pilgrims and tourists visiting the church. It was a happy place: people smiling, hugging, taking
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May 31st, 2017 Sobrado des Monxes to St Irene (Alburgue de Perigrino) Km Walked: 38 Km total: 795 Well, that was the worst night at an Alburgue by a wide margin. It was so awful I hesitate to even write about it, because it makes me so angry. How can such a pristine monastery make
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May 30th, 2017 Baamonde to Sobrado des Monxes (Alburgue de Perigrino) Km walked: 40 Km total: 757 Today was one of the better days on the trail and one of the most “remote.” For a good 3-4 hours we walked on quiet, far out country roads with nary a sign of human life. It almost
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May 29th, 2017 Gontan to Baamonde (Alburgue de Perigrino) Km walked: 40Km total: 714 Well, only 100 km left. Today’s walk wasn’t too bad and we mostly stayed on dirt and gravel roads. We had a long day because we decided we wanted to finish the trail in 4 days instead of 5. So much
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May 28th, 2017 Mondonedo to Gontan (Alburgue de Perigrino) Km walked: 17 Km total: 674 We walked outside into near zero visibility as we left the Alburgue. We had a pleasantly good stay there. The room was actually cold (a good thing), and there were no snorers in the room. Today’s walking was a fairly
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May 27th, 2017 Ribadeo to Mondonedo (Alburgue de Perigrino) Km walked: 36 km Km total: 657 It was a misty and cloudy morning as we walked out of Ribadeo, but it wasn’t really raining, and that was okay. The forecast for the next three days looked glum- lots of rain and thunderstorms. We climbed up
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May 26th, 2017 Tapia de Casariego to Ribadeo Km walked: 12 Km total: 621 I woke up and stepped outside to see the sunrise over the ocean, the first I’ve seen on the trip. I snapped a picture and then got my things together. I asked Carolyn on our way out of the Alburgue, “How
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May 25th, 2017 Penera to Tapia de Casariego (Alburgue de Perigrino) Km walked: 26 Km total: 609 We slept in and got a late start, not hitting the pavement until about 9:30. It was nice to sleep in, but the heat was already strong and the humidity was fierce and it made me wish we
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