Walking Day 10

15 miles of walking through the biggest wheat fields I've ever seen. No more blackberries or grapes, which makes for a very limited breakfast along the way. We did go by 4 or 5 tiny towns all with churches and one monastery so we did get to stop for coffee and a sweet. They have these great little hard donuts.

The last few nights we have had 12 to 18 people to a room and no space to stretch out so tonight we are splurging. In a private albergue with a private room and bath for 45euros usually the albergues are by donation or 5 to 8 euros. It is now 1:30 and we have already showered and Al is washing out clothes to hang and start drying before we go find lunch. Last nights Albergue was a nice new place but 3 stories with beds for 200 we didn't have room to hang our laundry.

About 10 this morning I was getting tired and felt my left heel really hurting again so we stopped at a water fountain that had a bench and shade of a horse chestnut tree where I proceeded to take off my shoes and socks to find that all the padding that I had so diligently applied last night had slide down and gotten entangled in my socks to make my heal problems even worse. Took all the Compeed off, had Al dig out the "foot repair kit" and reapplied compeed to one actual blister. Massaged my feet, put back on the socks, retied the shoes, wiggled my toes, feeling great..... Then stood up and Ekkkk!!!! Pain returning said the F word then told myself to "get a grip, this is what you want to be doing. At least you don't have to hand dig a 40ft trench in DG for a new propane line!

Lunch and a nap with feet up and now enjoying a cool quiet lounge. As we get further along the way more and more people are on the path. We still run into people we started with and it is so much fun. One Frenchman who started in Paris we see almost every day, one guy who started in Germany but now he is behind us. So far we have only met 4 people from the US, 2 young guys from Pa and Ohio and 1 women from Chicago 72 and a young woman from Roseville Ca.

Going to go check out some cave dwellings behind the Church before dinner, they were used by "hermits" then one was killed and became a saint .
We are in Belorado going to San Jaun tomorrow which may be a really difficult day. 15 miles, but steep ups and downs. Not rolling hills like today. So glad we had the ridge at Catalina to practice on.
JL