- Tuesday, June 19, 2018
- 3rd Day After Camino
- Santiago
- Weather: 65-75 degrees and blue skies with white clouds
End on a good note. Tapas at the counter. Morning flight to Charlottersville.
- 1st Santiago
- 2nd Santiago
- 3rd Santiago
Category: Caminos
Go West ~ June 18, 2018
- Monday, June 18, 2018
- 2nd Day After Camino
- Santiago and Finisterre
- Weather: 65-75 degrees and blue skies with white clouds
Tradition has pilgrims walking three days west of Santiago to Finisterre, land’s end. We were unorthodox and took Sophie’s convertible. Top down of course.
- 1st Finisterre
- 2nd Finisterre
- 3rd Finisterre
Rooftop ~ June 17, 2018
- Sunday, June 17, 2018
- 1st Day After Camino
- Santiago
- Weather: 65-75 degrees and blue skies with white clouds
Up on the rooftop tour of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. The roof was angled steps allowing soldiers quick movement.
- 1st Santiago
- 2nd Santiago
- 3rd Santiago
Let’s Begin ~ June 16, 2018
- Saturday, June 16, 2018, Day #37
- Santiago
- 17.5 miles; total 498.5 miles
- 1,529’ ascent and 1,822’ descent
- 75% hard surface
- Time: 8 hours 30 minutes
- Weather: 60-65 degrees and blue skies with white clouds
Let the celebration begin. 
- 1st Santiago
- 2nd Santiago
- 3rd Santiago
Arrived! ~ June 16, 2018
- Saturday, June 16, 2018, Day #37
- Santiago
- 17.5 miles; total 498.5 miles
- 1,529’ ascent and 1,822’ descent
- 75% hard surface
- Time: 8 hours 30 minutes
- Weather: 60-65 degrees and blue skies with white clouds
Arrived! Santiago de Compostela Cathedral.
- 1st Santiago
- 2nd Santiago
- 3rd Santiago
From To ~ June 16, 2018
- Saturday, June 16, 2018, Day #37
- Santiago
- 17.5 miles; total 498.5 miles
- 1,529’ ascent and 1,822’ descent
- 75% hard surface
- Time: 8 hours 30 minutes
- Weather: 60-65 degrees and blue skies with white clouds
From outskirts, to neighborhoods, to first glimpses of the Cathedral.
- 1st towards Santiago
- 2nd towards Santiago
- 3rd Santiago
Flash Memories ~ June 16, 2018
- Saturday, June 16, 2018, Day #37
- Santiago
- 17.5 miles; total 498.5 miles
- 1,529’ ascent and 1,822’ descent
- 75% hard surface
- Time: 8 hours 30 minutes
- Weather: 60-65 degrees and blue skies with white clouds
These are the images that will become flash memories…moments without the pack, freshly squeezed orange juice, open churches, sello(stamps) documenting my walk, the whirling sound of approaching bikes, blue skies, and sun.
- 1st towards Santiago
- 2nd towards Santiago
- 3rd towards Santiago
In the Pink ~ June 15, 2018
- Friday, June 15, 2018, Day #36
- Salceda
- 16.5 miles; total 481 miles
- 1,844’ ascent and 2,103’ descent
- 40% hard surface
- Time: 8 hours 30 minutes
- Weather: 60-65 degrees and overcast
In the pink…
- 1st towards Salceda
- 2nd towards Salceda
- 3rd Melide
Remembering 2014 ~ June 15, 2018
- Friday, June 15, 2018, Day #36
- Salceda
- 16.5 miles; total 481 miles
- 1,844’ ascent and 2,103’ descent
- 40% hard surface
- Time: 8 hours 30 minutes
- Weather: 60-65 degrees and overcast
How eerie it was to see a site I vividly remembered from June 22, 2014, four years ago. Though only a week later in June, the river offered welcomed relief from the heat and sun. With this year’s unseasonably cold and wet weather, no one gathered by the river.
- 1st Ribadiso da Riba, JUNE 22, 2014
- 2nd Ribadiso da Riba, JUNE 14, 2018
- 3rd Salceda
Special Moment ~ June 14, 2018
- Thursday, June 14, 2018, Day #35
- Melida
- Distance 9.5 miles; total 464.5 miles
- 823’ ascent and 1,291’ descent
- 100% hard surface
- Time: 5 hours
- Weather: 60-75 foggy becoming clear blue skies
Returning to Inglesia de San Juan was a special moment for Solphie as the crucifixion depicts Jesus with one hand reaching Heaven and the other hand reaching Earth.
- 1st Melide
- 2nd Melida
- 3rd Melida
