The night of the 27th I had dinner for the third or fourth time with the French couple and then the next morning we had breakfast together, they put on their backpacks and were off towards Leon. We will truly be out of sync now and I will not see them again. They have been walking the Camino for years going for about two to three weeks each year. They started in Le Puy and plan to walk the last stretch next year from León to Santiago. Nice people.
So they hit the trail and I went to the tourist office and waited for a bus to Palencia where I could catch a train to Salamanca. It was all nice and the train was interesting as it was a local train which stopped about every 10 minutes. I got to watch a lot of people doing their thing.
I was so glad to see Mary and there she was on the platform waiting. Her hair has grown so long I hardly recognized her at first but I couldn´t miss that smile a 100 miles away. We went to the hotel to get rid of the backpack and had lunch where she knew the waiters which was fun. She finished school today and after telling me consistantly how she was the slowest student in her classes it turned out that in fact she wasn´t if her grades were any indication of her ability and achievement. What a non surprise for me!!
I have not decided when I am going back to the Camino but it will be some time after the 4th when Betsy arrives. I will go over my Camino distance and lodging book and do some serious kilometer counting to see exactly how many days I should take to get there. Now that I am not too worried about a few long days I think that everything will work out OK so I believe the chances of everything going according to plan has increased to 40%.
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