People along The Way

These are some of our fellow walkers. Most have been out-walking us. Take note of the oldest gray haired gal in one of the group dinner photos... She is 78 and has walked the Camino AT LEAST 15 times!

A couple more...

Random flowers.

Finally a picture!!

Let's see how this works... This is week #1

Made it to Burgos!

Had a beautiful walk from Ages to Burgos today! Started out sunny and made it to town before it started raining. We are having a pickle of a time with this unnecessary extra weight, called the iPad. Now we're fighting over who has to carry it! Sure it's great for taking a few notes, listening to music, playing angry birds, but We've come to the conclusion that Apple is just the big kid who doesn't want to play with the other kids. We've come across a number of other pilgrims who are carrying iPads and we all seem to have the same problems. The only folks who don't have to reset their network settings or devices are the ones who brought netbooks. We've also been able to borrow another guy's apple SD card reader... SO! We can now fill up the iPad with pictures but Still can't upload photos for you to see. Still working on it... Now off to find food.

Location:Calle de Fernán González,Burgos,Spain

Great day walking through vineyards!

Cloudy day but no rain!  Great for walking up hills, through valleys and the vineyards of La Rioja region.  Walked 23.7 km from Navarrete to Azofra today.  We were passed up by pilgrims far faster than us and we caught up with some we met a few days ago who were off and running when we took a short day.  Pretty fun!  The real reason we stay in the occassional hotel/Pension is to get some sleep.  Last night´s sleep with a bunch of snoring smelly fellas was only superseded in sleeplessness by the night before in an Albergue were we bunked with two older ladies from Madrid - Falicitates and Teresa.  We specifically asked for a bed in a smaller room with less people because we knew the chances of a good sleep were better than with 8 or 20... so we picked the room with 4!  I mean how bad could it be with two sweet little old Spanish women?  Well I´ll tell you how bad it was... It was a "Rancando Fiestä"  Snoring Festival... All three of those people snored like there was no tomorrow... Dewey, Felicity, and Teresa..... I´´m tired.

Rain, Rain and a good day today

Saturday we walked only 3 1/2 hours but it rained the whole time.  By the time we got to Navarette we were completely soaked.  We decide this would be a short day.We bunked down with 13 wet Germans.  They said we stunk ?  Glad the showers were working.  As always we found a local bar for coffee, beer, wine and food. All in all a good day.  Today, Sunday we are in Azofra with clouds but no rain.  This is a great Albergue with only two peligrinos to a room.  Right now the sun is out and we are heading off for a coffee.  After a week our legs and feet are much better.  So many of the walkers are ten years older then us.   Don´t know how they do it.
Friday night we stayed in Logrono at a nice hotel.  The same hotel MJ and her sister stayed in last year.  Terrific room with a bath tub.  Most walkers do not stay in hotels because it costs a bit more but for us it is a nice break. We had a great time with eight or nine friends at dinner and a walk thru Calle San Juan, the tapas street for the locals.  We said good bye to two friends we met from Germany, Andrea and Kiran who had to go back to work.  Many walkers do part of the camino each year.  In a day or so we will try to up load some pictures from our camera.  Only having an ipad has been a limitation.