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 […]
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Day 16 – Burgos
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 […]
Day 15 – Agés to Burgos
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 […]
Day 14 – Belorado to Agés
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 […]
Day 13 – Santo Domingo de la Calzada to Belorado
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 […]
Day 12 – Nájera to Santo Domingo de la Calzada
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 […]
Day 11 – Logroño to Nájera
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 […]
Day 10 – Bakio to Bilbao to Logroño
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 […]
Day 9 – Bakio – San Juan de Gastgatxe
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 […]
Day 8 – Logroño to Bakio
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 […]
Day 7 – Monjardín to Logroño
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 […]
Day 6 – Villatuerta to Villamayor de Monjardín
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 […]
Day 5 – Uterga to Villatuerta
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 […]
Day 4 – Pamplona to Uterga
21.1 km ~ 29,723 steps Song of the Day: Foreplay/Long Time – Boston Well, last night was rough. In our little seedy pensión, I woke up to the sounds of Maverick puking. Twice. At around one in the morning. Naturally, I was cool, calm, and […]
Day 3 – Zubiri to Pamplona
24.4 km ~ 34,376 steps Song of the Day: Calling All Angels – Train Since we had decided to have a late start, we didn’t head out from Zubiri until around 9:00, after a bread truck who was delivering to the local café asked if […]