Espana at last!

Today is Saturday and we have finally arrived in Spain!  We stayed last night in Rubies (perhaps misspelled) in an albuergue that was new and clean but in a room that would sleep about 22 people.  Thankfully it was not full.  Sleeping with 22 of your best friends who you do not know is strange.  We did laundry in the laundry sink and I hung out my clothes line that Ken made for me.  I felt liberated in having figured out that I could actually figure out the laundry line!  We journeyed out this morning at 6:25am in the dark and walked 12.5 miles.  It was grueling!  Lots of uphill and then downhill on rock washes.  Our Pilgrim sister Judy took a fall.  The German fellow who have been following us for a couple of days rushed to our aid and helped Judy up, looked her over, and then journeyed on.  They were very caring even though we do not speak the same language.  I have very limited access to the German language so between that and a lot of sign language we conversed.  We finally made it to Tui around 1:30pm to a very nice private albuergue whereby we only share the room with ourselves.  I can hardly wait to crawl under the covers tonight for a well deserved nights sleep.  Tomorrow we journey onto Perrino bringing us one more day closer to Santiago!  I am amazed that I am able to keep up the journey especially since there is not one part of me that does not hurt right now!  We have seen such amazing landscape along the way.  Lots and lots of grape arbors that smell wonderful.  I find that I am learning a lot about myself and my capabilities.

Ir would appear that the Camino is just one big happy family.  We have run into several of our fellow pilgrims that we have met along the way in one albuergue or another.  Lots of hugging and trying to converse with limited language and gestering.

Looking forward to seeing all of you soon!  Sending love to you from España.

















Missing all of you and am looking forward to being home soon.