18.6 miles in about ten hours deserves some sort of reward, I think, so we paid to wash and dry our laundry in a machine tonight.
What a day! We realized last night that two out of the next three days would have to be 18 miles, so we opted not to do those back-to-back. We had to psych ourselves out as we passed through the town that other people stopped in if they decided to put off the first eighteen mile day-- that was hard! Keith took a picture of me after we left Los Arcos, which was already thirteen miles into the day. You can see the next town deep into the background on my left, but you might have to zoom in. The place we stopped is half a mile after that town! It was a LONG walk!
Earlier in the day, we came upon a wine fountain right next to a water fountain. Trick question: which one do you think we picked?!
At one point, there was a fork in the path. Our choices were long and flat or short and rugged. We picked rugged and short even though everyone else's guidebooks told them longer and flat was the best option. With that option, we also got great scenery. I took Keith's picture, attached, with one of the fabulous scenes being him. Also up there, we kept seeing a peak with something on it. We finally figured out that it was some sort of man-made structure, maybe a church a long time ago. That's in the other picture.
We're still some of the slowest walkers or here, but we don't have blisters yet. We suspect a correlation between the two, but we won't be surprised if our good fortune runs out eventually.
It's somewhat liberating to live with everything you need in one backpack, besides shelter, food, and water. We have some of the smallest packs out here, and we thank ourselves often for those choices we made in the months before we left. I also thank myself for cutting my hair!
We're off to our pilgrim dinner then to bed before a shorter day tomorrow to Logroño. It's supposed to be mostly flat, too, which works for me!
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