El Busto

Today David is feeling better! Hopefully this virus will be the same for both of us, with two days and two nights of fever. If so, I’m about a day away from feeling better! Turns out a lot of other pilgrims have a similar bug.

I felt terrible this morning and we contemplated taking the bus to Logroño and skipping the walk altogether for today. But…we both think it’s better to walk some than not at all so we made a plan to walk 7.5 km to Sansol. I’m glad we did! It was relatively flat and through vineyards and hay farming plots.

We saw a shepherd with a couple hundred sheep coming our way on the path. I didn’t realize that a couple hundred sheep can make that much noise with her a little hooves! Strangely, there were a few goats intermixed. There were four herding dogs too. It was pretty cool!

We learned how to navigate the Spanish bus system today, and took the bus from Sansol to the city of Logroño. After being on the Camino, walking through tiny towns, we were kind of blown away in the city! We were like, look! You could buy a soda on every block! They have this Gatorade like drink called Aquarius. We’ve been drinking those because they have electrolytes and we are sweating so much. It is hotter here than usual for this time of year. This weekend it’s going to be quite hot, in the high 80°F range. We’ll see how long it takes us to get back into our regular walking range after the bug. At least we know now how to use the bus! for €2.70, we could take the bus from one place to another city about half an hour away. The bus was nice too! Kind of like those discovery buses that we used to take kids on field trips in. You have to put your backpack underneath like big pieces of luggage. They were actually a lot of pilgrims on the bus. I imagine some of them were sick like us. There were a few that had big bandages on their feet from blisters. We were glad not to have blisters when we saw that!

We might go out and explore this beautiful city a bit. If so, I will put a few pictures on the blog. Unfortunately, I’m still feeling under the weather enough that all I really really want to do is lay on the bed in this beautiful city.

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