Carrion de los Condes

We started out with the moon as our light at 7ish, it was dark and cold but it was nice to see the sun rise to kiss the landscape behind us. We kept turning around to watch the changing sky and take in this total peacefulness. We could see headlamps ahead in the distance, but ran into no one. This Camino is so crowded right now, I still can’t get over how many people are on it. One of my photos shows what we encountered as the day went on. Unbelievable. We call it the herd! We try to keep our distance from the big herd of people..my inner introvert wants to either pass them all or hang way back!! I enjoy meeting new people, but not on the trail. That’s more of a time where I like to keep my circle small. I don’t want to get into a group where you feel you can’t stop when you want, or where we feel pressured to try to keep pace with people who aren’t our pace or go slower. The more we go along, the more I keep hearing of people suffering with shin splints. Sometimes those develop into stress fractures if you don’t rest and ice. We are only almost halfway, I hope they can slow down, or take a rest day. Praying we don’t start developing overuse injuries too. So far so good! I did last year and it was so painful. Had it not happened in the last week, I am not sure I could’ve handle a few weeks of extreme pain! We rest quit a bit when we are done for the day. I’m glad Holly doesn’t turn from pilgrim to tourist when we get to towns! She’d be on her own for those ventures!! I like to visit churches when it works that we are there when they are open, but I don’t need to see every monument or every single site mentioned in our books. Today while we started out with very crisp temps, it ended up being about 74 degrees when we quit. Doesn’t sound too hot (and it’s definitely not in comparison to previous years), but it’s enough to start sweating and needing sunscreen. Tomorrow will be 2 degrees warmer in the morning (50) and 2 degrees warmer in the afternoon (76). We wore leggings this morning and by 12-1pm we were wishing we had shorts!! Tomorrow will be a couple kilometers more than today so I’m definitely wearing shorts! Sorry I don’t have a lot of ambition/energy to write today, time to check the laundry, pack for tomorrow and head to dinner at 7. Talk tomorrow 🩷😘Lue lisää