Days 31 & 32: Melide to Salceda to Monte del Gozo (AKA “Slow Down”)

Since Special K and I parted ways in Melide (we call Drew ‘Special K’ because when he feels like crushing some kilometers he can be real special), I have really enjoyed my alone time on the Camino. After I posted my last blog in Melide, I took myself out for a meal – a NON […]

Day 30: Ventas de Narón to Meride (AKA “Time to Finish What I Started”)

We’re in the final stretch here. As I sit typing this, drinking a can of Estrella Galicia while ‘Modern Family’ plays on the albergue TV with dramatic Spanish dubbing, I have only 54 kilometers until Santiago. I’m ahead of schedule – as I’ve mentioned before, I wanted to jump a little ahead to avoid the […]

Days 28 & 29: Samos to Ferreiros to Ventas de Narón (AKA “Take Time to Watch the Sunrise”)

I very sleepily conducted a Facebook live video the other night after posting the last blog here. I felt bad at first to look a little tired on camera, to maybe be a little slow in answering questions and a little embarrassed to realize that the alignment of the camera was off at first… but […]

Days 22-27: Vilar de Mazarife to Astorga to Rabanal del Camino to Ponferrada to Villafranca del Bierzo to Hospital de la Condesa to Samos (AKA “No Chinchas!”)

Since I last left you hanging on by a thread last Tuesday, so much has happened. Let’s start with the basics: I’ve walked 170km (106 miles), gotten sick, gotten (and eradicated) bed bugs, been guided up a hill by a 150lb mutt dog which scared the living daylight out of me, saved a sheep which […]