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(You can follow the blue dots on google maps to track the trail)
Entry
47, January 10th,
2012
Warm
today. The wind turned around to the South in the night, we could
hear it creaking in the rafters.
More
Korean food ripping my face off for breakfast . . . so good. Now
we're drinking coffee at a tiny house/bar/cafe/albergue in the hills.
The old woman made us coffee while her adult son brings in firewood
for the day. The kitchen door is open – there is a wood stove for
cooking. Old school.
Later
Holy
shit, I walked 40 kilometers today. I took the alternate long path
to Samos, a monastery to the South of the camino. It added about 5km
to my walk, but Rosa recommended it to me and my gut says keep
walking with the Koreans, so I had to catch up with them after seeing
it.
It
was a beautiful walk. The paths were one until Triacastela, coming
down the mountain. We could see tomorrow's walk. From there the
paths split – I took the left fork. Between Tricastillo and Samos
were several hours where the path followed the Sarria river. Day
three of fucking beautiful; a canopy of bare trees above a path
clinging to the valley wall, rough stone blocks on one side of the
dirt ruts and Spanish moss on the other. On the valley floor they
were flooding the pastures via sluices – the sweet green grass
glittered silver in the cold winter sunlight. Small villages
everywhere – wood smoke, slate roofs dripping with frostmelt, the
smell of mud and wet hay.
The
city of Samos had a large, ornate monastery, and long parks stretched
out along the river. A few km later I had a conversation with some
card players on a hill and it left me smiling for the next several
kilometers. I arrived at the edge of Sarria just as dark was
becoming truly night, having walked from first light to last light.
Of course, the last thing to face before the albergue on my 40km day
was a huge staircase . . .
More
pilgrims. Oscar, a Spaniard, and Anna, a Finn. Cleber is less than
a day ahead. Now pardon me while I go sleep the sleep of the dead.
Expenses,
Day 47
Provisions:
5.00
Albergue
Sarria: 5.00
Menú:
10.00
Total:
20.00
Trip
Total: 1059.84
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