Today was a long day,. We actually got out of the Albergue by 7am which is EARLY for us. Everyone else is up at 5 and out by 6, but we usually do TNT leave until they kick us out at 8am. Today however we knew we we doing 34 km (you do the math) so we thought an early start would be useful.  And useful it was; we completed 10 km to our breakfast spot by 930over the best breakfast we have had yet (chorizo, eggs, tortilla, cafe conleche) we met the most interesting people including a woman from Seattle who took her children to Dr Morse and, of course, thought the world of him. Her children both had a. Dry unusual genectic disorder akin to Lou Gerigs disease and one died 3 years ago at age 23 and the other just died at age 25 and she was doing the Camino to scatter her ashes. WOW!

Then we walked another 8 km or so to have yet another cafe con leche (I am such an addict now) and talk to a new doctor from New Orleans and he actually already knew the woman with the kids. And we stopped at two very WOW churches. At the first one Troy tested acoustics by singing Amazing Grace very loudly until he noticed the nun sitting in the back (tee hee).

and then around 3 we started the grueling last 17 km trek most actross very hot very dry plains with lots of wind mills which look like angels if you are pretty tired.  The road included an 8km section of the ORIGINAL road OVER 1000 years old WOW!!!!! Almost made you forget that you were walking 34 km (nah, not really)

what did make make me forget was the SWIMMING POOL at the Albergue when we finally arrived at 830pm!!! WOW!! I have not seen a single swimming pool and here it was at our Albergue (ie dormitory) where we were staying for a mere 5E!!! WOW! And, I brought a bathing suit!! I jumped right and the water was FREEZING which was perfect since ice baths are perfect recuperation for the aching body!! It was heaven sent, literally!!

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