Charlie and I’ve been using an app called Wise Pilgrim that shows you a map of the path and where you are on the path. We really need it, or something like it, for this Camino because it is a fairly new Camino and the yellow way markers (the famous yellow arrows) are not anywhere close to adequate. The app’s maps have taken us exactly where we expected so far but today was crazy. A few times, the real path was different from what he showed us on the map. In one case, the one on his map fizzled out in the middle of a boggy field. And one path he showed as a path was barely a path at all. We ended up backtracking several times and going way out of our way at one point. This all turned what we thought was going to be one of our shorter days (6.5 miles) into a pretty normal day distance-wise (9 miles).
Also, there were no services, so we walked over 8 miles before taking a break or having anything to eat, except I took a caffeine pill near the beginning. We were fine not eating but I was really tired after walking 8 miles without a break. Sure glad to come to that first cafe.
Some of the walking was along the ocean, but much of it was a little bit inland. We probably changed types of surface two dozen or more times. I’ll show some examples below.
We were glad it wasn’t hot today. Comfortable temperatures. Humid, with off-and-on rain. (We are loving our Altus rain jacket/ponchos. Easy to take on and off.)
Wow, that sounds a little frustrating even on flat paths. To have to backtrack and no nice cafe breaks for such long periods. Love the rain gear!
I went back and looked at the picture of Wynette from the back with her long poncho on and I got a distinct Count Dracula vibe.