Day 26: Squeaky Clean | Murray Morrison

Clean. That’s something we haven’t been in a while. We have embraced the meaning of Camino clean. I have 2 pairs of clothes, and we do laundry every 4th or 5th day because many of the albegues do not have washing machines and because we are lazy. Mostly because we are lazy actually. So if you do the math, there is more days than clean pairs of clothes. Compared to some of our Camino counterparts, we are “clean”, which says a lot. We have grown to like this nomadic style of cleanliness. It’s all we know now.

Yesterday night, when we were sitting down to enjoy our pilgrim meal, our old friend Claus came up to say hello. We were caught off guard because we had not seen him in over a week and did not expect to see him again. He even noticed Alex growing out his beard. We didn’t know whether seeing him or him noticing Alex’s beard was the greater Camino miracle.

During dinner, we sat next to two English brothers from Liverpool. One was on the search for some Camino love while his brother was just along for the ride. It seemed the seeker was having some success. They were shocked and seemed disheartened when they heard we were not on the prowl for Camino loves. Camino gonna Camino.

On today’s walk we expected to run into a bunch of new butterfly pilgrims as we call them, but it kinda seemed like many of them stayed in their cocoons on this Memphis Monday, as they probably had heard that your Memphis Pilgrims own the streets on Monday. We believed this until we arrived at our hostal where students on a Sacred Heart College summer trip are residing as well. We look forward to hearing news from our homeland.

We ended today after a testing 29 km in the small town of Hospital, Spain. We hope that isn’t a sign of things to come.
GO PREDS

Alex hiding in the shadows-

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