So it seemed that the dog had gotten a fox tail sticker in his paw and was having a hard time of it. The German and the limping dog went to the train station to try that mode of transportation. This is the first time that I have seen someone with a dog and since the logistics would be a nightmare I can understand why. Went through Burgos to a little town on the other side called Tardajos and stayed at another lousy place. I had been thinking hard about my back and those who know me well may wonder that I was able to do the thinking and still walk without wandering off the edge of a cliff or trip in a pot hole and break something, but anyway I was able to trace back to when I first started having trouble with my back and it was in Scottsdale when I started using the treking poles seriously. This got me thinking about maybe trying walking without them if the going wasn`t too hard and I did that which turned out to be a good thing. Yesterday my back didn´t hurt much after I stopped and the only problem I had was that I had to sit around all afternoon as usual doing nothing. I just can´t go down to the cafes and sit there telling the same story or lie all afternoon so I have been going a little crazy each day. So, this morning I talked with a Basque woman and her husband at breakfast and they said that they had walked 40 km. the day before. Although they are younger I though what the hell, I am going to have to change something or I am going to quit the Camino from afternoon bordom. So, I took off this morning and walked 34 km. with out a lot of trouble as of now. This leaves me with a new lease on the Camino!
Tomorrow I am going to take a bus down to Salamanca and visit Mary for a few days before she takes off with Betsy, my sister for a road trip. I, needless to say, am very excited about seeing her. When I come back to the camino I will start putting the km. behind me and have less time to lay around in the afternoon.
This morning in the town of Castrogeriz I saw something of note. As I was walking by the main church, a car drove up, three women got out and put on the backpacks from the trunk, the backpacks all decked out even with the conch shell, stood in front of the church and took each others picture, then took their backpacks off put them in the trunk, got in the car and drove away. Everyone has to do their own Camino I guess!!
Today going out of Castrogeriz the path took us up a very steep incline to the top of the hill which was narrow but flat. Then we came to the other side which was very steep and certainly showed me where the rain in Spain mainly falls. It was plain to see that there was a lot of plain there and I was going to have to walk across it all. Which I did as I am now in Frómista.
The French couple with which I have had dinner a number of times are in the room next to me at the pension where I am staying. It is interesting how people cross each others paths even though we are all going our own speed and our own distances.
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