Day 7 - Torres del Rio to Logrono

Today was shorter and earlier than our other days at a little more than 12 miles in 6 hours. Less sunburn, earlier shower, and longer rest make us want to figure out how to end earlier on other days, too.

We're splitting laundry with another pilgrim again, so it'll be all done before we eat dinner tonight. Tomorrow might be another 18 mile day, so we're hoping to rest up.

Before we left, we tried to arrange to share a taxi with other pilgrims. It didn't work out to share with Gerry, but we picked him out at the airport as a fellow pilgrim. Gerry is writing a blog, and we're staying in lots of the same towns and hostels as him, so I thought you might want to see some of the pictures we're too lazy to take because it's a little bit of effort to get out the camera. The address for his blog is
http://gerryscamino.blogspot.com.es

Jennifer might be in a picture from this afternoon. We haven't loaded our pictures for today yet, so there's nothing attached today other than the gpx file that will show you our route and elevation.

I'm truly shocked at all of the injuries I see on people who are still walking! The pharmacy employees (pharmacist, nurse, doctor, or something else?) take really good care of everyone, it seems, but I just don't know if I'll keep walking if I have to wrap both knees and tape both feet just to make it possible to walk fifteen miles again! There's serious dedication out here! I decided to try walking without tape today, and my feet are fine. My muscles wouldn't cooperate for quite a while this morning, but they eventually warmed up. Our worst complaint is the pain in our feet near the end of the day. They feel like they have been pounded and pounded, which they have! I can't really describe the feeling any other way. More than the cardio required to get up the hills, the pain on the bottoms of my feet is what makes me stop to rest.

I'm going now to investigate a postcard and a post office to send a note.