In the last 24 HRs. I have traveled from home to Madrid, Spain. My flights were uneventful fortunately. I traveled from Sacramento, to Atlanta, to Paris, and finally to Madrid. I was able to get a late flight from…
June 3, 2017 Today I slept in. I did not walk up until 8:45am which for me is pretty darn late. Then I just layed in bed for a while and relaxed. It was really nice. About 11:00am I ventured out into Madrid. Taking the…
May 26, 2017 Made it to Ribadeo No walking yet. Today I traveled by bus from Oviedo to Ribadeo. I managed to get the last bed in the albergue. The Norte does not have large albergues this one only sleeps 12 and is…
May 27, 2017 Today was my first day of walking the Camino. My starting point was Ribadeo, which is the first stage in Galicia. By all accounts today's walk was a challenging one. We spent most of our day either going up…
May 28, 2017 Getting ready to hit the trail. Today I did something that I have never done on any Camino. I took a Taxi. Our day started out as usual. We were on the road by about 7am and walking at a good pace. About 5k…
May 29, 2017 Today was back to normal. We were all up bright and early and out for a nice 23k walk. Our walk to day was a relatively easy one. Slight ups and downs but not the extremes of day 3. We met two new pilgrims…