Road Warrior

We have hated to jinx our fabulous weather by mentioning that we have been weeks in Galicia without a drop of rain. We think this may be a record. Jerry's goal was to hike a 1000 miles on this trip (funny but somehow he forgot to mention that to me) and we are currently a "little" short of that. We do feel however that we are finally in good enough shape to tackle the big one...the Pyrenees,both on and off the Caminos. So we took the milk run train from Santiago to Pamplona...10 hrs+. A  drunken conductor caused the train to be over 30 minutes late for our connection but the minute we stepped onto the platform we had at least three railroad personnel guiding us to a train that they were holding for us. Not sure how popular we were with the other passengers, but at least they moved so we could have seats together. Once we arrived at our hotel, we found that it was one of the new fully automated hotels without any type of reception, only a kiosk where you enter your confirmation number and theoretically it spits out a key. Thank goodness our taxi driver stayed(it was after 9pm)and used his phone to call the manager who finally arrived. So much for new technology. Now we are waiting to take a bus to Saint Jean Pied in France which is the trailhead for the Camino as well as a great starting point to explore the Pyrenees.

The definition of multi-tasking..
brushing teeth and drying sock
with the hair dryer.

A gang of graffiti artists were just arrested for stopping

trains on order to paint them. Spain actually encourages artists and lots of painted

trains are actually being used.