Kevin's Camino and the blustery day.

Today, 25km, high temp while walking of 53°f, and 15mph headwinds with stronger gusts. That could be the whole post right there.  This stretch really didn't have much noteworthy, walked thru many small villages, so a part of today's trek went really smooth as you went thru a village and boom, another village.
Today's task was constantly trying to overcome the harsh weather conditions and make it to our hoped for destination.
What is my big decision right now?  Am I going to push to get to Burgos for Saturday?  Haven't decided, going to take it one day at a time.  Have a climb to do and some king stretches with no supports/villages to pass thru.
Had dinner tonight with Camino Ray, we had our Camino friends barge and get daughter join us and we invited the other Peregrinos who were going to dine alone to join us at the table.  We had 7 merry Peregrinos at the table eating as a Camino family.  Life can be good on Camino.
Something that is amazing and never ceases to amaze me is the volume of Peregrinos on the trail.  In many of my pictures you can see the pilgrim train stretching out into the distance ahead and behind me.  In the mornings, there is a mass exodus of Peregrinos from the cities and villages, as the morning gets on, it starts to stretch out, usually the next village has us re-congregating around a bar for breakfast.  The trail out of town tends to be less congested at this point as the train is stretching out, but you are never alone, just look at many of the trail pictures.
There are what I call pilgrim towns, the big spots where pilgrims tend to congregate in hostels/albergues.  You can usually see pilgrims swarming around the town square either enjoying a refreshment, scoring an early dinner, or shipping for supplies.  Some Peregrinos buy groceries ACS cook in albergue kitchens, others explore the town.
Most pilgrim hotspots offer a "pilgrim menu".  First choice is a choice of soup, salad, beans, or pasta.  Second choice is usually fish, chicken, pork, beef, and sometimes a vegetarian offering.  Dessert is almost always rice and milk, flan, ice cream, or fruit.  The menu is usually offered for €10 and comes with wine or bottled water and bread...  Lots of bread..   Seriously, this country LOVES their bread even more then their potatoes.
Other offerings at most bars, Tapas.  They range to varied to define, but I have had some really good tapas and pintxos.
Of course I had  a few that didn't get fully consumed... Like the one I was told that was pork, but not any cut that I knew of (it might have been stewed skin, either way, did not enjoy that one.
Then there was my temporary addiction to Spanish lemon soda " Lemonita' ", but I quit that habit before it got out of hand... Ooh my, that stuff is great.

So today wraps up my 13th day of walking and it is difficult to taking judge his far we have walked.  Signposts seen to indicate we are around 550km to go, the books not very clear, a pamphlet on albergues sends to indicate we are at 562km to go.  Either way, I have a golf 250km (150 miles) under my feet and the pace is quickening with more km covered each day.  Next week the Meseta and its long, flat expanse, is my challenge.  I may get to open up the speed a bit and put some km behind me.
This is it for tonight, going to get an early bed and get plenty of rest, going to try a pretty big stretch tomorrow.

Buen Camino!
Kevin

Just a few photos today:
https://goo.gl/photos/uZQP6xK5JWWvqCWUA