September 30,2015 I am 2 days late on this one as the Internet has been spotty. Valtuille was a great little town where we had the house to ourselves, cooked a home meal and sat by the fireplace. The walk to Herrerias was different. On the one side we had a road and some traffic and on the other was a river with its peaceful sounds and birds. Some how we missed our intended path up the hills to a sun filled hill top which was reported to be delightful. Oh well! Missed one path and on another. This path changed about half way to a country road with fallen chestnuts and walnuts. This is a pilgrims meal for sure. We landed in this little town Herrerias, a one horse town( actually had several horses). It ... read more

September 28 I cannot believe we will be less than 200 km tomorrow of our Santiago walk. I just blogged separately about puerto Irago Cruz de Ferro so I will just say this is important for today. Today's adventure from Rabanal to Molonaseca was a pleasure from many other paths in that we were in nature and not on the pavement or near cars. We did climb about450 feet and a lot of this was on rocky river bed. The biggest challenge was the decent from 1515 meters down to 610 meters and all on river bed rock. A pleasure but not without challenge. Good to be here. We shared some of today's adventure with Florida Dave and Carl. A pleasure. ... read more

September 27/2015 Finally getting up to date as WiFi can be spotty. Today was a much more pleasant walk as much of the trip was away fr the highway. The little towns are similar to each other but unique in ways. A little town Called El Ganso has this unique Cowboys Bar along with a cure older church. A great day which was short enough to get organized for a few days ahead. Tomorrow we make a. Big climb. ... read more

September 25/26, 2015 Travelling out of Leon was forever on sidewalk and pavement through industrial. Once beyond the never ending city , the path was beside the highway, non descript. We went to a small town San Martin and stayed in a small pension. The following day we went on to Astorga. We crossed a Medieval bridge, Puente de Orbigo, the longest and best preserved. It has a very well known history. We. Took an optional route which took through farm land and a family was harvesting potatoes. The farmer in conversation said hard work but little pay. The whole fily seemed to be out there. Astorga is another well preserved walled city. When we arrived they were practicing for a future re enactment of some battle. I think it had to do with the struggle ... read more

September 21,22 Leaving Los Templarios to Calzadilla. Then on Mansilla de las mulas. Great to be more than half way to Santiago. The road from Los Templarios to Cmalzada de Coro was along the highway virtually non descript. I should mention Terri's Spanish saved us in Sahagun as we did seem to be drifting in the city after visiting a few Pharmacies. From there we took the rural way which initially was a road in the middle of farm land. Nothing unusual in a rural setting. The only thing in Coto was there was a man taking photos. Unusual. He was taking them of Teri and another single female. I believe Teri left here Rain coat there where we took lunch. We travelled about kilometre and there was a car on the over pass with a ... read more