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

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

Game Show ~ 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

This is my version of the ubiquitous TV Spanish game show.  The object is to match the photographed prize (handmade leather purse/B&B with swimming pool/) with the purchase price (60€ /17€).  I bought them both.

  • 1st Melide
  • 2nd Melida
  • 3rd Melida