Another incredible day of sun. We started off at 7:15 in blackness partially lit by a beautiful array of stars. It took about an hour for there to be enough light to turn out our head lamps. The morning was very cool. We walked among the well treed ridges and valleys of Galacia as we continued westward to our destination of Gonzar - a very small town west of Portomarin. We had expected a 25 km day. However there were two section of the trail closed for reconstruction. We made detours that added time to the trip. By the time we arrived at the albergue at 3:30 we were pretty tired. Another peligrino has a pedometer which read 29.3 kms for our exact trip. That's a lot of detour!
We had a lovely lunch in Portomarin with another peligrino. She is walking alone and related a story that had occured to her a couple of days ago. I will not get into the details here, but there is a real risk of harm for women walking alone. Some areas are very remote and there are not always other peligrinos close by on the trail. Apparently, there have always been security issues for peligrinos.
I also had a very nice discussion with a gentleman from Holland that started his walk in France. Total trip is something like 1600 kms. That's big!
Well, as of today I have completed 180 kms. The walk today physically went well overall, but I continue to have upper shin pain in the morning that slows me down and creates discomfort. I'm really not sure what drives this. I'm wondering if the cold mornings are part of it? Or if the muscles need to be worked for a few hours to get loose? Hopefully tomorrow will be better!
We had a lovely lunch in Portomarin with another peligrino. She is walking alone and related a story that had occured to her a couple of days ago. I will not get into the details here, but there is a real risk of harm for women walking alone. Some areas are very remote and there are not always other peligrinos close by on the trail. Apparently, there have always been security issues for peligrinos.
I also had a very nice discussion with a gentleman from Holland that started his walk in France. Total trip is something like 1600 kms. That's big!
Well, as of today I have completed 180 kms. The walk today physically went well overall, but I continue to have upper shin pain in the morning that slows me down and creates discomfort. I'm really not sure what drives this. I'm wondering if the cold mornings are part of it? Or if the muscles need to be worked for a few hours to get loose? Hopefully tomorrow will be better!
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