Salceda

We left Boente at 5:45 in darkness to avoid walking in the later afternoon sun -- the hot temperatures hitting southern regions of Spain have arrived to a lesser degree in the north. The usual morning mist was absent, a sure sign of the heat to come. A group of Spanish walkers ahead of us had a flashlight, so we followed them until light broke in time for a breakfast break.

The path wound past villages 

where cows outnumbered people.

At a bar break in A Calzada the cows went marching.

Scotty and Barbara were walking further than our destination of Salceda. Earlier we ran into them at a bar where Barbara reunited Dad with his camp towel, which he had mistakenly left at the albergue 2 days earlier. She had found it after we left and showed true pilgrim spirit by carrying it in her pack with the chance we would see her again along the Road!

While waiting for our albergue Bondi to open, we sat at a nearby bar's patio where a group of high school walkers were taking a break. Group leaders did a dance swirl.

T-shirts hung from the bar's ceiling.

Walkers' laundry could be seen out of our albergue window.

At dinner we joined walkers Gabriella & Kate from Poland, Patrick from Sweden, and Iris & Clare from Ann Arbor, Michigan where they attended college. Iris just graduated from U of M with a history degree and Clare is pursuing packaging design studies.