CAMINO DE SANTIAGO
October 10, 2010
Today we started the Camino de Santiago: yesterday was the 12-hour bus ride across Spain to get us to the starting point of our five day pilgrimage. My guess is that the valley girl Allison will be the first to go. She's from Santa Barbara California and says "so" and "like" more than any other words in the English language. Sadly, she was the first person to finish today and I was about 15th. I'm not worried though, she annoys me and I'm sure she won't last long. I'm feeling good today after 21km and am ready for the longer day tomorrow. No blisters but some pain on the soles of my feet at the end of the day.
October 12, 2010
Today we walked 30 km and I'm about to die. My feet, knees and back all hurt. Still no blisters.
October 13, 2010
Second to last day of the Camino: we walked about 20km. Allison said every step she wanted to cry. Today I was ready to write "Tengo Exito" but she limped up about 45 minutes after the rest of the group had finished. -Damn. Today we were walking and one girl, Ashley, got stung by a bee. She screamed out and kept walking while rubbing her leg and cussing under her breath. The other girls insisted she stop: "Ashley sit down! don't be brave you just got stung by a bee! you need to stop for a while and sit down!" So after the bee sting the guys continued the trek alone without the girl accompaniment. "Don't be brave, you just got stung by a bee!" became our quote of the trip and it would be heard about 20 times daily.
October 14, 2010
TENGO EXITO!!!!!! Today Allison got to breakfast way late cause she cried every step of the way. After breakfast she got as far as the sidewalk outside the cafe before she just broke down and started bawling. She sat on the stoop and bawled for about 30 minutes while the professors decided what to do. Eventually she called a taxi and we went on without her.
The gang of friends that I walk with have tribe names. Today after I proved my hypothesis and showed everyone the proof in my journal I got my tribe name: Nostradamus.
*The Camino de Santiago was a 5-day pilgrimage through the north of Spain to The cathedral of Santiago in Compostela Espana. These journal entries say nothing of the journey itself and and the religious experience of a 5 day hike through beautiful northern Spain to the intimate and breath-taking town of Compostela de Santiago and it's crowning jewel and the third most holy place in the world: the Cathedral de Santiago. I decided to exclude these aspects of the camino because they cannot be related in words: spoken or written. The Camino de Santiago is something that needs to be experienced in person. I also have no biases towards women; I just though the bee story fit in with the general trend of the story that would be most bloggable: my Nostradamus story.
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