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Camino 2025 Day 6

Today I walked just shy of 16 miles in about 5 hours. There were plenty of ups and downs but no mountains to climb today. Tomorrow that changes as I climb up O’Cebrero which is the last 6km of my day. The albergue Alea…

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Camino 2025 Day 5

Last night was very interesting. The albergue is donativo and very small. There were 16 pilgrims in a very small room. Of course as it always is someone would get up to use the restroom in the middle of the night, not…

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Camino 2025 Day 4

Today was a day of climbing. Gradual at first until the last 5 miles when it was all up. I am staying at the donativo albergue called Dominus Dei. It is the most primitive that I have stayed in, in a very long time. Not…

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Camino 2025 Day 3

Today I walked to Astorga. After just 3.5 km I rejoined the regular Camino. It was nice to see a few more pilgrims today. The Camino is still very empty. I am staying at the Franciscan Parochial albergue and so far am…

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Camino Day 2 My first day of walking

This year is very interesting. Maybe it’s that I started at the end of August or it’s the fires, but there is no one on the Camino Frances right now. Today I left León and saw only a few more than 10 pilgrims in total.…

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Camino 2025 Here We Go

Even after all of these years traveling to the Camino, today I learned a valuable lesson. My day started at 3:30 am on Wednesday 8/27 getting up and ready to leave at 5 am for a 7 am flight. So far so good. My flights…