Sunday, October 4, 2015

Day 30! - 1 month on Camino!

Every Camino needs a rain day, I got my first of three consecutive rain days today.  There rain wasn't THAT bad, more drizzle then real hard rain, but enough to make everything damp...  That and my rain poncho also doubles as an oven bag...  Poncho roasted Kevin, I couldn't figure out if it was wetter in or out of the poncho (I think in).  REAL good poncho, just heats the heck out of you.

Anyways, the pack cover was bunching the straps, which in turn gave me a back ache.  Once I got the ache, no matter what I did, the ache was there!  Compound that by the cool wet weather and it made for some bad aches.

I survived until Pieros, where I went to my destined albergue...  With no driers!  My clothes have been sick washed for quite a while, they were in desperate need of a full machine wash and my sleeping bag liner was 29 Camino days funky.  It wasn't going to happen there, really felt compelled to move on...

Emotionally, that was a rough thing to do, backache, rain, 7km, and just miserable!  Got to Villafranka quite miserable, followed the Camino arrows and found myself not on the way to my albergue (Two sets of arrows >:( ).  Generality in a right miserable mood, I did take advantage on a concurrently l conveinently placed ATM.  Then, I parked myself inside a bar and decided to relax and have a coka-cola light before resuming my trek.  Finished in the bar, I resumes my quest to get to my albergue, fighting misleading directions and increasing frustration each step...  For a brief moment, I was just frustrated and wanted back home, then I checked myself and regained my wits and got myself on the real Camino path and to my albergue.

Then things got better, I got to my albergue and they were just ready to help, €5 for laundry wash and dry, and they do it!!!  HECK YEAH!  They were bringing me up to the dorms so I could choose a bed and I heard "Kevin!?, Is that you?!"...  My heart lifted as I found 3 friends at the top of the stairs greating my with warm smiles!  All my problems just disappeared right there, after all, how can you be miserable with friends!

So, I end this day on a high note.  Tomorrow I will be doing the road route and not the scenic route out of town.  I have no desire for climbing to the top of a valley and running the ridge in the rain, one slip and express route to the bottom!  Day after I make the final attack on O'Cebreiro.

Anyways, it's very late and I need to sign offs.

Buen Camino!
Kevin

2 comments:

  1. Kevin, you are most certainly Senor Pelegrino! Hear you about the "oven bag". Ha ha. It is so great to have someone do your laundry for you. And now you are approaching Galicia - the scenery is amazing - similar to the Green Mountains and hill farms of Vermont. Buen Camino! R & K

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  2. Honey, I wish that I could have been there with you to give you a great big hug. I hope that I was able to comfort you via the phone call. The rain in general sucks, but then add having to walk that distance in it is even worse. I would have probably had similar feelings of calling it quits and going home. And that is great that you had your laundry washed and dryed for you. And I am so glad that you were able to meet up with some of your Camino friends. I am so very proud of you, honey. I love you all to bits. Can't wait to talk with you tomorrow.

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