Melóns are in Season

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Wynette. Melóns have been an option on several of our pilgrim’s menus. You get a large slice. Maybe not large enough because they are so delicious. I’m not sure what variety they are. They are just called “melóns” . Above are some we passed in a fruit market in Logroño. Sandías are sometimes an option as well. As everyone from Albuquerque knows, “sandía” means “watermelon”, the old-fashioned red kind. (Albuquerque sits below Sandía Mountain which glows red in the sunset.) Last night we bought a fourth of a sandía and had it for dinner in our albergue kitchen. I think we got the last one in the little grocery store because as we were taking it up to the register to pay I overhead a woman tell her husband  with dismay “ay no, no tiene sandías!”

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Walking On the Highway

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A few places you have to walk along the highway for a while, usually only one or two hundred meters, sometimes far as one or two km. These are almost always small roads with little traffic. I guess this sign means you can walk on either side.