Travel day

Today we split Paris for Porto. Apparently we narrowly escaped the effects of a 24 hour strike by the Paris air traffic controllers. They came back to work just in time to get us to Porto. (If there are any air traffic controllers from Paris reading this, I’d just like to say, «Merci beaucoup pour le bon voyage. »

Tonight we’re staying in a very cool hostel, The Passenger, which is located at inside the iconic Sao Bento train station in the heart of beautiful downtown Porto. We have a private room with a shared bath so we’re only going halfsies on the hostel experience. Our room is plenty noisy from all the street traffic outside our window so we may not sleep any better than the folks in the dorms. Porto is bustling on a Saturday night.

Tomorrow we start our Camino. After all the months of planning I’m excited to get underway. We’ll be storing our Paris luggage here at the hostel during our walk to Santiago de Compostela. Just spent the evening sorting out what stays here and what we’ll carry with us. My pack weighs approx 13 lbs, not counting water and snacks. Hard to know if we trained enough for this trek but guess we’re about to find out, eh?

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