The Song in My Head: Toothbrush - Brad Paisley
Today’s (Random) Craving/Memory: A cabin breakfast in Groveland
Total Steps: 28,959 steps
Total Walking Distance: 15.4 miles / 24.8 kilometers
⏰ Wake Up: 8:30am
💤 Sleep: 8:00pm
Goodmorning!
Last nights sleep was wonderful.
I woke up at 6 and I could hear it was raining.
It was so peaceful, but then I thought about the fact that if I went out now I’d have to take down the tent in the rain so I went back to sleep.
Woke up again at 8:30am. Stopped raining and it was beautiful outside. I packed up my stuff, and got on the road at 9am.
Today’s walk was gorgeous. But I didn’t have any water and wasn’t finding any water fountains.
A couple towns later I found a fountain and a bench, and sat to make a sandwich.
Then Josefine and Lucy from Germany caught up and sat to eat with me.
I ate, and Lucy pulled out some teeth and toothbrush gummy candy that was super weird textured.
We continued on, up and down a lot of hills, arriving to Soto de Luiña at 2pm.
We went to a bakery, got some cookies and a chorizo pastry, and went to the Dia to get groceries.
Then we all sat in a circle on the ground and ate.
After, we parted ways and went to our albergues. I heard that the one in town doesnt have a receptionist until 5pm so I snuck in and took a shower and charged my phone.
I got back on the road at 4:20pm, to walk further to find a place to camp. Noa sent me a picture of a cool spot from ahead the trail so I’ll go look for that
Along the path I met Marta, from Poland. She’s been living in Barcelona for 10 months doing an intensive tap dancing class. Crazy.
We walked for a while and then I found my camping spot.
Super open. I layed my stuff down and pulled out the tent. I wanted to let it dry because it was still wet from last night.
I layed down and ate a premade tortilla de patata I got at the market for 3 euro. With my spork that snapped in half.
Fine dining.
Then I got situated and laid down.
Even found a great use for the hook in my tent.
I’m going crazy.
As I was winding down, I heard some kids come running down the path and stumbled across my tent. I was inside. Could only hear what they were saying, not what they were doing. They were pondering it, then I watched one of them grab the corner and lift it up and I yelled and they ran away. Hahaha. They better not come back.
Anyways, going to sleep early tonight. Shouldn’t be raining so tomorrow I’ll have a slow morning and get on the road. I have an Albergue reserved along with some other people for tomorrow night. I can do laundry and shower again. Should be awesome.
See y’all then,
David