Before I forget...
Trip Start
Unknown
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Trip End
Ongoing
Sarria, Galicia, Spain
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
It is called ´Bedbug sausage¨ and goes roughly like this...
Collect all the bedbugs from all the albergues
Put them into a sock
Tie a string around the top
Pull it tight
Put it in the oven
Level seven
5 hours later, it´s ready
The bedbug sausage
Wait for your wife to come home
Call out ¨Honey, I´m home, and I brought you a present!¨
Bedbug sausage!
Mmmmm....
Then your wife says
¨Get back to the camino and get me some more of that bedbug sausage!¨
(Of course, you had to be there. This is for my amusement, not yours)
There is actually a lot of bedbugs on the camino. Luckily I haven´t had any. No blisters either! Or food poisoning... some people are having a tough time of it, I´m just cruising through...
Today I walked an extra 6.5km, by choice. The camino has changed me, walking 6.5km out of the way is not my usual style! It is SO incredibly beautiful here though, I can´t get enough of it. Galicia is so green and lush, just like everyone said it would be. There´s lots of hills to walk up and down, but that´s even fun!
Today we hit the ´just over 100km´ point, which is the bare minimum you have to do to get your certificate saying you have done the camino. So, all those people who are looking to do the bare minimum are out, and are struggling through their first days. We call them ´fake pilgrims´and it´s fun to walk really quickly past them going up or down a hill, to show them how ´real pilgrims´can do it...
I´m not really sure that the camino is making me a better person!
But honestly, it´s pretty cool to be able to run up and down hills all day without even thinking about it. And our guidebook told us to be nice to the fake pilgrims, so I´m trying to be a better person.
