Today we walked from the tiny town of San Miguel de Meruelo to another not quite as tiny but still small town of Galizano. Walking on roads the whole way. More up and down than yesterday but not bad. We walked a total of 8.5 miles but that includes walk to restaurant and back after leaving our packs at the hotel. Elevation gain and loss was 600 feet up and 594 down.
The roads mostly didn’t have shoulders but very little traffic. Photos below show typical road and that it was a bright sunny day.
I still couldn’t talk Charlie into wearing his hi-viz wear. I decided to make mine look like a vest in front.
You do walk facing traffic, I assume. Unless there was very little traffic, I don’t think I would enjoy this much.
We do try to face the traffic. The only exception would be if there is a blind curve we want to avoid or perhaps a better shoulder on the other side. Luckily, on these roads there is very very little traffic (maybe a car every 5 or 10 minutes, not going too fast) and it seems safe. Now … I remember doing some road walking on the Via Francigena in Italy that was terrifying.
Your high viz could pass for a stylish scarf.