Yesterday the walk was 22.5 km to Navarrete and a hotel just outside of town. This was the nicest place I have stayed in since the beginning of this journey. Wow, now I know how the middle class lives! It was a good walk through the town of Logroño where I bought a Herald Tribune newspaper and retired into a cafe to drink coffee and read the paper. What a wonderful relaxing treat even if the news has not changed a whole heck of a lot in the last month. Then the Camino went through a huge sports park where people were walking, running and holding many camps for little kids. Fun to watch. It is very interesting here in that people seem to keep an eye out for the Pelegreños (Pilgrims). On the way out of town from Viana I came to a cross road in the early morning just after sunrise and a woman was stopped there with her car and was getting a baby out of the car. Naturally I was looking at the baby but pretty soon someone started to whistle at me louder and louder until I stopped and looked back. In English the person, looking out of his front window, told me that I had just walked past a turn off for the Camino. Very nice!
Today was a short day so I took a little excursion to Borgota to look at the church etc. There I noticed something interesting. In the middle ages in this and many other areas they tended to build their churches on higher ground and had their steeples pointing up to the spiritual heavens, the hightest structure around. Now, if there is any higher hill around or if not for that matter, the highest structure reaching up to heaven is,..., The cell phone tower! How times change.
I realized something else today, if everything goes according to plan (30% chance of it happening I would think), I have walked more than 1/2 of the days I am going to walk. Today was the 27th walking day and by my reckoning I have 26 days ahead of me if I can finish it and go on to Finnisterra. Boy, that sure sounds like a long time to me and my back right now! But, on the Camino hope springs anew every morning.
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Hi Dad,
Haven't been on the computer for a while. I started reading at Salamanca and finished here. You sound like you're having a very interesting trip. Meeting interesting people, stay in pore and nice hotels, getting kicked of the computer, etc. I like where you told about the women getting out of thier car, putting on their backpacks,taking a picture, and then getting back in thier car. I hope the dogs master pulled the thorn out of the dogs foot. The talk about the church and the cell phone tower craked me up. That's kind of neat that you meet the same people over and over again on the route.
Well, I must be going. Got to do some other things on this machine before my movie comes on. "Haunted Mansion."
Love Joyce
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