Author: colbymillsaps

20.5 km ~ 28,908 steps Song of the Day: Until the Sunrise – Timeflies Started off with quite the nice hike this morning, loving the start in the dark and getting to see the sun rise on the Meseta. Though, after hours of wheat fields I find they’re not as pretty as they are in…

24.3 km ~ 34,266 steps Song of the Day: Better – Declan Donovan After quite an eventful night, I left Hornillos far before the sun had risen, folding a note for my Camino Angel and leaving it on the pillow she had so kindly let me use. Here, we finally stopped and I pulled out…

27 km ~ 37,640 steps Song of the Day: Alone with Me – Vance Joy An excerpt from my own personal journal: “How tired can one human possibly get? Because I am just so mentally tired of this. I’m so tired of planning and thinking a place will accept dogs for them to say no….

12.1 km ~ 17,111 steps Today we took a rest day in the wonderful city of Burgos which started with churros and chocolate with Trish. She was then kind enough to take Maverick for me so that I could wander the inside of the Burgos Cathedral which is simply jaw dropping.  The following pictures could…

31.8 km ~ 44,903 steps Song of the Day: God Undefeatable – Austin Stone Worship Another beautiful day on El Camino. What’s up with this nice stretch, hmm? I shouldn’t be complaining, I should just be going with it. Anyway, I had paid for breakfast last night at the awesome albergue we stayed at but…

29.3 km ~ 41,210 steps Song of the Day: Realize – Colbie Caillat Woke up this morning to Maverick barking while lying across my chest. Surprisingly, sleeping on my mat in the garden hadn’t been bad at all. Maverick had slept pressed against me and partly on top of me, so it hadn’t been all…

25.6 km ~ 35,973 steps Song of the Day: Featherstone – The Paper Kites Well, each day comes with a new adventure I suppose. Today was probably the most boring Camino day (I feel almost sacrilegious for even saying that but it’s true!) most of the day stayed close to a busy highway which I…

22.7 km ~ 31,905 steps Song of the Day: Colors of the Wind – Judy Kuhn  We started the day with a nice sunrise and a foggy morning which was honestly pretty enjoyable. It definitely put a new twist on Camino life. This gave way to a beautiful, sort of overcast day as we wound…

35.9 km ~ 50,386 steps Song of the Day: Don’t Stop Believin’ – Journey  Back on the trail today! We exchanged the endless wheat fields for the wine country of La Rioja region of Spain. Absolutely beautiful. Maverick was playing with sticks and seeming to love life back on the trail. As we made our…

Day 10 was simply spent as a travel day. We woke up in Bakio where Cian was kind enough to call us a cab that took us back to Bilbao where we would be catching our train back to Logroño. Luckily, we had some extra time in Bilbao before we needed to be at the…

15.5 km ~ 21, 865 steps Song of the Day: Whenever God Shines His Light – Van Morrison Got to sleep nice and late in such a nice room in our AirBnB and then off we set to walk to the famous San Juan de Gaztelugatxe. If we thought this was an off day…hah. Most…

Travel day. We woke up, got some breakfast at a little cafe in a park on our way to the train station, and then headed off on the train to Bilbao. The man at the train station gave it a bit of crap, taking pictures of my letters from Renfe and from my therapist, and…

14.5 km ~ 20,491 steps Song of the Day: Take Your Time – Vance Joy So today was different to say the least. After a rough night in our tent (the wind was so strong the fly flew right off and we ended up freezing all night). Once I had finally dozed off, I decided…

20.7 km ~ 29,210 steps Song of the Day: No Song Today We have rebounded from the awful day that was yesterday. I think. For now. We’ll see. For the first time, we set off in the morning with friends. Trish, Margie, and I walked kind of together kind of separate all the way to Estella….

31 km ~ 44,884 steps Song of the Day: Castle on the Hill – Ed Sheeran Some Camino days are worse than others ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Welcome to our worst day thus far. We were off to a resounding start today…probably should have taken the hint when I struggled to open the albergue door and gone back…