Some random thoughts
I think I would like a guard chicken.
Sometimes I pretend I don’t understand Spanish.
I miss hearing my native tongue in a familiar accent.
Jose from Córdoba checked in on me today to be sure i would make it. The distance wasn’t so rough today but the terrain and whether sucked. Another big climb to Punto de Acebo. Thank God–well really I have been thanking him do a LOT of things–for the little bar at the bottom of the point-_warm, dry with hot coffee to drink and a bathroom. It was a little surreal as different pilgrims came in and then Bob Dillon songs playing. There’s a play here, I just need to find it. And he had a collection of watches. Hmmmm.
And then another blessing Meson Catro Vietos–things are said and spelled differently here after all this is Galacia! (Yeah, think I forgot to mention I crossed the Asturian /Galacian border). At Catro Vietos I was only going to get a drink and rest but the place smell so good and the were cooking them over a fire right there at the bar–done!
I’ve also given in. For the next two legs I’m going to let my backpack be transported in between stops. I could probably carry it but I don’t know if I would enjoy the walk so much and I’m not sure over these next very long days if I want to do any damage to myself that I can’t recover from for the last easier stages of the walk.
As someone said to me, no one weighs your backpack in Santiago. True that.
I has sean some older women in the hostel last night with big backpacks and I asked them where they had come from; they’d come from a stop 26 very hard kilometers back. I was wondering how bad a sharp I was in not to have been able to do the same thing. And then when they passed me on the Camino, I realized they could do it because they had their bags transported.
Even though I’m going to have my pack transported tomorrow I was feel no shame and make no one else feel bad for it.
I’d say it’s smart to get the help you can get. Especially if it helps you enjoy the walk more.
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I think it’s very smart!!! Like you said, there’s no need to cause any more wear and tear on the body, particularly since you’ve been battling foot issues. I hope you’ve managed to enjoy those days.
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