The alburgue provided a breakfast of toast with a tomato spread and orange juice. Those are sparse marching rations.
Shortly after my encounter with Juan I ran into Old Bucky. He had heard through the horse grapevine that the Colorado Cowboy on the Camino was in the neighborhood and he was looking out for me. I stopped and spent some time discussing the challenges Bucky faced being a horse on the Camino. It looks like an easy life but it is hard to stand behind a fence day in and day out watching all the pilgrims go by. Bucky begged me to take him with me to Santiago but the alburgues have a pretty strict no horses allowed policy. I offered Bucky an apple to cheer him up but he refused saying that he had an apple allergy. Kinda like a peanut allergy.
After I said goodbye to Bucky I left the official Camino and started walking down the river variant and met Vicky, an attorney from Boulder. She knows two of my former partners at the Gorsuch firm, Dudley Spiller and Paula Connelly.
That’s it from Combarro, Spain. I hope you are having a great day wherever you are.
Steps walked – 40,015
Kilometers walked – 33
Flights of stairs climbed – 29
Today was about ten kilometers longer than I thought it would be. The mileage in my guidebook is not even close to accurate. I am trying to keep my daily walk to around twenty kilometers and not doing a very good job of that.
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