Greetings from Los Arcos, Spain!
My apologies for not keeping this more up-to-date. It has been more of a challenge to actually get internet, let alone wi-fi and then there's the challenge of the Spanish keyboard. On top of that, usually by the end of the day, I am just too tired to even make an entry. I am certainly not complaining, just explaining.
Just an brief description of day 2 and 3 and 4 and 5 and OK, 6...same as day 1. Hills! Big ones although not as big as the first day! Each day the hills seem to get smaller and for those big ones, much easier to get over. One thing I have discovered is that if you go up a hill, you always end up going down it and then up another one and the pattern continues. I was walking with a lady from Victoria yesterday and we were laughing about this. It seems strange but at by the time we had this conversation yesterday, we were both beyond exhausted both from the heat and the walk and it just struck both of us as particularly funny.
Anyhow, the walk is going well. I am meeting lots of people. It seems that the entire group of people walk the same route. We hop scotch each other during the day (they will stop and I will pass and vice versa) and end up in the same town each night. Unfortunately, some of them either have to quite early or take a bus in order to keep on track with how much of the Camino they have time for. I am very fortunate that I have the time off from life (work, home, etc.) to do the entire Camimo. I have to admit that some days, when the alarm goes off in the morning, it is all I can do to not pick up the phone and ask to stay in the same spot another night or to find out where the bus station is so I can just jump on a bus to the next town. I know I will probably have to do this at some point as I can feel the old body building up to a "rest day" but I will cross that bridge when I get to it.
Hopefully more later but right now, I have a town to discover. I may even get a chance to upload some very unedited pictures later on my Picassa site which the link is to the right of the page.
Just a reminder you can leave a comment at the bottom of each post if you want! It would be great to hear from you...
Adios!
Gidday from Lanark County, now do you feel at home? oh I forget eh! Now Canadian too LOL. Well wondering if you have had to ask for "ayuda" from any cute spanish people yet. (Note used the spanish word for the day) Glad to here you are doing okay I can't beleive you have been gone a week already. Hope you are enjoying it and can't wait to see some pics.
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