9 days of the easy life and now I will go back up to Frómista tomorrow and start again on the Camino Sunday. Mary and Betsy will pick up their car tomorrow morning and start their road trip. After my ill advised slumber on the sway bed I have spent much of my time trying to get my lower back to relax and generally be happy. Although progress has been made I will see, I should say 'feel' how it takes to the backpack. My bet is that all will be OK but Sunday will tell. The plan is for me to walk 15 more days and then meet Mary and Betsy at Sedor some 45 to 50 KM. short of Santiago for an evening and then for me to continue on the next morning for the last two days while they bask in the sun. We have a room reserved in Santiago on the 25th and I hope to finish on the 24th. The two of them have promised me that if there is not a happy outcome to this back dilema they will take me back if necessary although a bad back in a small car does not really have the sweetest sound to it. In any case I would have to find a way to get to somewhere close to them. Not an insurmountable project I would guess since most towns have some kind of bus service and I do have some oxycoidine in case of a real emergency. My experience is that one oxycodine pill and one tylenol has an astonishingly soothing effect under trying circumstances.
The three of us have seen lots of 'brown stone' here in Salamanca and it will be nice to just look at the countryside for a few days. Old churches and other such buildings are wonderful but after so many a rest is required for me at least. It will be quite interesting to start walking again. Although one sort of rotates through people on the Camino as everyone goes at their own pace, there is a continuity because you run into the same people time and again and then as they go over the horizon for the last time you have seen and connected with other people. Now it will be all absolutely new faces for a few days for me.
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