Day 24: On Cloud 9 | Murray Morrison

They’ve gone as low as they can go. We think that the Meseta may have hired another pilgrim to slip us something in our food last night because we woke up in the clouds.  There was literally zero visibility past 20 yards to start our walk. It was a cool experience for the first 20 or 30 minutes, but then we kinda wanted to have some views besides just blank white all around us. The rest of the walk stayed in the clouds until virtually the very end. We aren’t complaining though because it made for a cooler day without the sun.

The actual walk started uphill again and finally plateaued for a while until the final steep descent into Triacastela. Along the walk we entered the beautiful region of Galicia. It is our last region of the trip, and it is also where the holy grail Santiago resides. An unnerving Galician trend that we noticed today was the incredible number of free-roaming chickens. I don’t know if Galicia means “roaming chickens” in Spanish, but it might as well.

Alex and I love to watch the love dynamics play out on the Camino. We had seen this same father daughter combo for about a week who always had this German boy following behind. Next thing we know the German boy and daughter were standing on a hillside falling in love.  It may as well be Leanardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Titanic.  Good for them.  The Camino provides.  However, I’m not quite sure what the father thinks of it.  I know I would not want my daughter falling in love for a German boy in Spain on a father daughter trip. The father seemed to be very cool about it though so props to him. Updates to come.

We have settled down in our private accommodation. It’s our last one till Santiago, so we are going to savor it.
Hasta luego.  

Alex in the clouds and Alex's lunch (When you order a trout, you order a TROUT)-

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