The Rain in Spain Falls Nowhere

Day after day, the weather in northern Spain has been gorgeous. Cool crisp mornings, sun breaking through the early morning mist at about 10:00 and then sunny afternoons where it's hot in the sum but delightfully cool I'm the shade. It's almost too monotonous bit I'm not complaining. 

The last time it rained was June 19th when we were in Burgos. That is 16 days of great weather. We are in Galicia now where the typical weather is supposed to beach like Ireland or England -- cool and a lot of rain. All of the pictures I'm the guidebooks show wet trails and peregrinos in ponchos but we rarely see a cloud. It's really unusual so I'll take unusual. 

The start of our walk today was a pretty big climb, but then we had a nice long walk along a dirt path above the clouds. 

We then descended through the mist in the valley and had two hours of walking in very cool conditions though farmlands 

We walked through Sarria, a medium sized city where many people start their Camino. (If you walk at least 100K into Santiago, you can receive the compostella -- the certificate of completion of the Camino.) There will be many more people on the trail now, unfortunately. 

Our 23K walk finished at the top of a hill. Our albergue is a renovated 17th century building with a commanding view of the countryside. We spent a lazy afternoon at the picnic table eating, drinking, reading and chatting with our fellow peregrinos. 

Therese has had this nagging feeling that she hasn't really escaped work at Suntrust even though she's retired now. I think we finally figured it out: the Camino logo which we see on directional signs hundreds of times a day is a abstract representation of a shell. 

It is way too close to this:

Once we figured out the cause, Therese immediately relaxed and hasn't thought about it since. 

In this spirit, today's good intentions are for Therese's former co-workers and friends at Suntrust. She had many interesting jobs over the years at United Virginia, Crestar and Suntrust. But her best experiences were all of her co-workers.