Mansilla de las Mulas

Today started out with a beautiful sunrise, a perfect cafe breakfast stop, where I had the best French toast and Alan was gushing over his eggs with bacon. Then...as we kept walking we saw the sky getBaca selengkapnya
Leon #1

When I was putting together my video footage from today, I chose the song “Glorious” by MaMuse because that seemed to fit today. All of us had reservations in León, so we were able to take ourBaca selengkapnya
Leon #2

We toured the Cathedral de Santa Maria de Regla this morning and once again we were in awe. The stained glass!!!!! Wow 😮Almost all of the cathedral was built between 1205 - 1301, the north towerBaca selengkapnya
San Martin del Camino

Our walk from León to San Martin was not the most scenic today because of the long route out of the city. Plus, we were near a lot of traffic noise and even took a break at a dive of a truck stop.Baca selengkapnya
Astorga

Today, we crossed a medieval bridge in the town of Hospital de Orbigo. Alan was ecstatic to hear the bridge was the site of a joust tournament in 1434 that lasted a month in which Suero de QuiñonesBaca selengkapnya
Foncebadón

We walked about 16 miles today in order to get to Foncebadón. We wanted to be close to our hike up to Cruz de Ferro in the morning, so only rested in Rabanal and then climbed up to here. I told AlanBaca selengkapnya
Cruz de Ferro and Ponferrada

We began the morning by hiking up to Cruz de Ferro. When we arrived, I could see this huge mound of rocks with a wooden pole topped with an iron cross set in the center. There were a few people up onBaca selengkapnya
Villafranca

We hiked back up into some wine country today ending in Villafranca. Tomorrow, we will try to go about 18 miles ending with the climb to O’Cebreiro. The weather may be wet with some thunderstorms,Baca selengkapnya
O'Cebreiro

July 19
With the threat of thunderstorms, we started walking at 5:30 am with our headlamps. Finding our way in the dark takes some concentration to make sure we don’t miss an arrow pointing the wayBaca selengkapnya
Triacastela-July 20

July 20
Today was a misty, foggy morning followed by a beautiful afternoon and evening...kind of chilly, but so nice for hiking. It was great to not be a big sweat ball 😂 We walked through manyBaca selengkapnya
Sarria - July 21

July 21
We have been walking for a month! Only 11.5 miles today through more beautiful countryside. The hike went by easily even though we climbed a bunch more and then had to descend steeply atBaca selengkapnya
Portomarín - July 22

July 22
We walked past the 100 kilometers to go marker today - Woohoo!!!! When we finished in Portomarín, we checked, and we only have 94.7 kilometers (58.8 miles to go).
We had another beautifulBaca selengkapnya
Palas de Rei - July 23

July 23
We walked a bit over 15 miles today, so we now have 43.6 miles to go.
We wanted to get an earlier start this morning because we knew we had a lot of climbing today and it was going to getBaca selengkapnya
Melide - July 24

July 24th
We only walked ten miles to Melide today and will do another short day to Arzúa tomorrow. Some of our friends made it to Santiago yesterday, and Andy made it to Santiago today 🙂. SomeBaca selengkapnya
Arzua and O Pedrouza - July 25-26

July 26
Tomorrow we walk into Santiago! Andy, Paul and Mirabelle are already there, and they are going to meet Alan, Paku, and me at the Cathedral ❤️. Being together with them at the end will beBaca selengkapnya
Santiago - July 27th

I don’t really have any words to describe how wonderful and surreal today was. 💕❤️💕
Alan, Paku and I entered the city together and, as we neared the cathedral, Andy greeted us with bigBaca selengkapnya
Pelancong
Wow!
PelancongWow! That was quite the storm! I am so enjoying following your adventure! I love technology and the ability to have the memories to remember for years :)
Pelancong
Amazing!
PelancongThat is incredible Barb! Quite a scary adventure!