Starting tomorrow and until the end of the trek, we have long days and are heading into the mountains tomorrow. Tomorrow night we are staying in a “crumbling” village and the following day, for those of you who saw “The Way”, we are leaving our stones at the iron cross. The Guide has made it abundantly clear that we are going to get our asses kicked from here on out with long days, possibly colder and colder weather, and there are no more rest days.
The hotel we are in last night and tonight has a Spa in the Basement. For an hour today I was pummeled by hot water jets, luxuriating in steam and hot saunas, blasted by hot and cold jets, and floating around in a hot pool. I’m afraid it will be a shock to the system when we decamp tomorrow night in an Alburgue (where the kids sleep in bunks) which is also a hotel. Last year they ran out of rooms and some of the group had to sleep in the common areas. I will pull out my CPAP and make sure that doesn’t happen to me but things will be primitive for a while.
On a brighter note, we will be past the 2/3 mark after tomorrow. I believe we’re about to hit the 10 day (left) mark so we are indeed, SLOWLY beginning to finish this “walk”. So, before things change dramatically, here are a series of videos that represent a typical day except when we had the gale force winds and rain; I’m trying to block that out.
Joe Jeter October 23, 2014
2 Comments
JoeLUNA
Wonder what it feels like to live with 1000 year old structures. A person could almost resent them since they become untouchable, even when you might have an idea and want something new. Might feel pretty hemmed in by all that stuff. I wonder if they do?
I keep getting surprised by how ordinary the landscape and the paths are. There’s a lot of pilgrims walking the Way, but apparently not enough to make a big effect economically. You guys seem to be incidental to the local economy. Which is good. You’re passing through but there’s not a huge group of tourism people watching for you and distracting you and tempting you. You can do your thing and think your thoughts and walk.
Tim Chan
Hi Joe, I don’t think you can assume the farm equipment is free if it’s on the camino! Lol maybe that’s where they store it? Or, they put it there for scenery and to make the farm look pretty?
The Pumpkins look nice for “rejects.” You should carve a pumpkin for Halloween Joe, you’ve got a couple of knives including my swiss army knife. Use them to do a fun jack o’lantern for halloween. You’re really good at carving pumpkins.
The Jesus rock is really beautiful. Of course someone shouldn’t “steal” it. That would be majorly bad juju. It’s a really well done stone carving though.
When I saw the video of the guitar player, I thought, “Joe must be lonely, he usually pays guitar players to leave us alone or stop playing all together in Puerta Vallarta!” Lol
That 1,000 year old relic looks like something out of Game of Thrones. I wonder if movie companies ever go to these way out places to shoot period films?
The Gaudy structure is really cool it makes me wonder if the house next to Ron’s will be completely demolished or if someone will be able to fix it. It’s still sitting there. Ron and a neighbor are petitioning the city and suing the guy to either finish it, or demolish it…. Maybe they could move it to the Camino where it could live near other buildings.
You’re going to do just fine on the hills. You’re ready and you’ve got super light, high tech hiking poles from REI in Carlsbad.
Buen Camino Joe!