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  Last night´s sleep with a bunch of snoring smelly fellas was only superseded in sleeplessness by the night before in an Albergue were we bunked with two older ladies from Madrid - Falicitates and Teresa.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.

Correction!!

...our fellow pilgrim, Cybil, just turned 78!! yesterday, and she's from Belgium. She started out on the road before us today, then we passed her up along the way, THEN when we got to our final destination today, Torres de Rio, Cybil was already there, an hour before us, drinking a beer!! I know she didn't take a taxi or bus because we walked a long remote section of trail today through vineyards, wheat fields, and ancient ruins, for about 12km... Unless a farmer picked her up... But I doubt it. That woman has more flexibility and ease of movement than we do. The last time I was able to move so freely was when I was in my 20's. Once again... Just amazing. More on the beautiful countryside later.

Lorca!!

Made it to Lorca today... Short walk, only 13.5km (8.47 miles). Why? Because we are in PAIN! O.k. Not too much pain but yesterday we were really suffering. We have learned something pretty big on the Camino today... As much as we complain about our "ailments" there is always someone else who has more pain (or should be in more pain). We told you about Wolfgang... 75 year old guy who walked the Camino 10 times already? Well we learn today that he also walks in sandals, AND has a heart condition! So what are we complaining about! And on top of that, as we are walking along, we are passed up by a fellow with ONE leg!! AND that fellow was SMILING!! Now we are really feeling like bums. All the people are great! All very interesting, from all walks of life, and from all reaches of the planet. Just very cool! The icing on the cake for me today was meeting Cybil from Hungary (?), mid-70's and has been walking the Camino so much in the last 20 years that she can't even count... BUT she has at least 15 Compostelas!! Amazing! Well we will see how far we get tomorrow... No complaining here anymore. One highlight tomorrow will be a stop at the Fuente del Vino! The wine fountain on the trail... Yumm. Well Dewey is watching the champions league soccer game here at the Alburgue with a slovainian fellow, Drago. Until our next solid Internet connection.... Buen Camino!

Made it to Puente La Reina

Walked about 30 frickn miles so far.. Like we just walked to the San Diego Zoo, and why the heck do we feel so bad! Still having fun though. Tomorrow we'll aim for less than 10 miles... A short day. Meeting a lot of nice people. We will try to put pictures up as soon as we figure out how to get them downloaded. Later....

Got to a WiFi connection....

After a one day delay in London we made it to Spain and started the Camino on Friday in Roncesvalles.  The first leg was 13 miles to Zubiri. We just made it with sore feet.  Then we met a guy from Germany, 75 years old and this was his 10 tenth Camino !!!  Two in the winter.  Wolfgang was walking in sandels...We were humbled but kept going. The second day we made it to Cizur Menor, about 15 miles and feel ok.  Tommorrow we go up a big hill and it will be a bit tougher but MJ may take my bag.  We have met a bunch of great people and are having a lot of fun.  Pictures to follow.