Week of Lasts
We have begun our week of lasts. Each day in the week marks the last day of the week that we will walk together to Santiago so today is the last Saturday. Last night I took a picture of the moon outside my bedroom window. As you can see the moon is visible in broad daylight and it made me realize that I have not seen the sun set since I arrived in Spain. I know that it gets dark because we have watched the sunrise almost every morning. Our shadows are long in the morning and this morning we realized that these shadows represent that we have travelled a 'long' distance in the past several weeks and only have 132 km. left to cover.
Once again the walk today was perfect. Even the early morning breeze was mild enough to have Jim remove his jacket and the bottom of his pants before we left the village. The hills in this region are covered with ulex,(the yellow flowering shrub that is the national flower of Galicia) foxglove and heather. As the sun rose, the hills were ablaze in colour.
Much of our journey today was pastoral and there were several instances when we had to share the route with cattle. It is fascinating to watch the herds person and the dogs move the cattle. At one point, just as we were entering Triacastela, our end destination for today, there appeared to be as many perigrinos on the road as cattle and this seemed to confuse both sets of travellers!
I am still amazed at the size of some of the tree trunks. I half expect to see fairies and goblins peaking out from the many crevices. Maybe I have been walking too long...
