Day 77 - Ribadiso a Arca- September 30 - On the Camino 39 days
Last night there were two french guys in our room. There was also a mic over stuffed chair which looked like it would be really comfortable to curl up in and read or write. I will never know because one of the french guys set all his stuff on it, apparently his alarm too, because when it we t off at 5:30am this morning it took him about five minutes to get to it and turn it off. So I guess I was supposed to get up early. lol
I got ready, stretched, went to the reception area and got a little cup of coffee from the machine, and looked for all of your messages. I got on the road about 6:30 am. I walked in the dark for a couple of hours because sunrise is about 8:30am these days. That makes it a little difficult to see the yellow arrows and other directional signs, even with a head lamp. That's one of the reasons I don't like walking in the dark. However, I didn't get off track in the dark this morning, I did it later in broad daylight.
About 10:30am I remembered that I hadn't eaten any thing. So I stopped and had some café and tostada. They even had melocotín (peach) jam, my favorite. At this point in the journey everything is crowded, the bars, the trail, the albergue. It's hard to take a picture of the trail without people in it. Do it is hard to get off track because there are always people in front of you and behind you. But, I managed. I was flying along, when I saw a cute little small hog sitting guard at the end of his driveway and I was watching him and thinking about the stories of wild dogs on the Camino. The dog just watched me. He didn't bark or move, he just watched me. I passed him and suddenly I heard him barking. I looked back and there was a guy running. I thought that he was out for a jog. But he ran up beside me and started waving his hands. So I took my head phones off and he explained I had gone the wrong way. It was quite a way back to where I made the wrong turn. I thanked him profusely. He had left his pack with his two friends and ran after me. I felt so stupid coming back. I didn't have sufficient Spanish available to explain how dumb I felt. I just said, estoy muy tonto, meaning I'm very dumb. He put on his pack and the three of them walked on.
Then while I was eating dinner I looked up and there he was with his friends. I went over and thanked him again. He said I was really going fast because he had to run about three hundred meters to catch me. His name is Sergio. Then the waiter introduced himself as Ricardo and gave me besos.
Other than getting off track, today was a pretty calm day. There was no rain and the sun actually came out for a while. I ran into the Australian couple from the Pulpería. And a few other people I know by sight. Last night I had dinner with the young couple who have been teaching in Madrid and the older man they are traveling with. They met him or he met them on the Camino and they've been traveling together ever since. He lived in Latin America for many years and was also in the Peace Corps there many years ago.
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