It was cold this morning! Still a bit rainy and we had the rest of the mountain to finish. Our morning selfie was photo bombed and then we took a selfie with all of our favorite people. We were up early this morning, woken up by loud people in the albergue per usual.

We headed up and just WOW. It was absolutely beautiful. The clouds were below the mountain tops and it was beautiful to see.

his morning the group of school kids was everywhere. They are just sprinting on by, 1) cause they’re younger 2) they just started their Camino. I can’t remember if I mentioned it before, but students in Spain can put their Camino on their CV to help with college apps, jobs, anything really, so many of them come to complete the last 100km or so of the Camino. So each day I’m sure we will see more and more. But our plan is to avoid the big towns, stick to the small ones, and hopefully just dance around the kids.

I spent a lot of this morning hike walking with Jen which was really nice. We talked about Cascadia which was new to me and quite fun to think about. As we climbed the mountain, we began walking into the morning fog, which made for some great photos.

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It’s stunning to be back in the mountains. This mountain, in theory, should be the last big climb. It should be much easier from here on out until Santiago. Long days, but not hills.

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After a few deceiving moments of thinking we were at our town, we were ACTUALLY at our town. We were all planning to stay at one albergue, but it was full! This is a problem that can come up as we get closer. Everyone else was ahead of us and we didn’t have wifi, so Debbie and I just decided to go to the next albergue a couple doors down and just grab a bed. They had them available and it was quite lovely! We had our own corner and only three other people in the room. We went to town to look for an ATM, pharmacy, and snack and of course the pharmacy and ATM were closed. This was how I learned that it was Sunday. Time often becomes irrelevant here and I never really know the day of the week, just the date. So, that was a bummer.

We went to a restaurant, found Jen and Kieran watching Spain vs. Russia soccer game. We all agreed to come back in an hour and a half for dinner. We caught the end of the game and I officially am out of my world cup pool. Womp womp. We ate, we left, we slept.

Day mileage: 17ish
Total mileage: 397.5ish
Personal mileage: 18.14