#14 - Walking the Camino-May 5, 2016

12th day of walking

Book - 10.14 miles

Map My Walk - 12.02 miles, 5 1/2 hours

Fitbit - 30,143 miles, 12.85 miles

Elevation - 960 meters

We went through five towns today. 

Belorado - pop 2,140. This was a nice town to pass through first thing in morning we're always interested in a super mercado where we can buy lunch stuff

Across the street was a first for us on this trip. A crew cab, short bed Mitsubishi pickup

We passed through some areas of building reconstruction that we don't often see in Oregon City.  Half a building just kinda ripped off

Then here - the buildings have been removed and orange spray-on insulation covered everything. Maybe it "glues" everything in place

We found this exercise park with all sorts of devices to work out on. I think it was really for children or maybe adults that need to move and twist.

Some new plants going out of town.   This is Wallflower. It's really pretty, growing on a wall (duh).  At a dance one does not need to feel belittled by being called a Wallflower.  You are a beauty!

And Rosemary. We saw it as a big bush and shaped into a hedge. This is for Bev and her artisan bread. 

We spent quite a bit of time walking on a path close to interstate (or the Spanish equivalent) N-20. It is a busy two lane highway with a bizillion trucks whizzing along. As one approached we heard it beep beep its deep horn at the peregrinos walking ahead of us

Wait a minute!  This is like trains in the US who will blow their horns when you stick up you arm and pump it up and down. So we tried it. I held  up my trekking poles high in the air and waved them back and forth shouting "Greetings from America"......no, I really didn't say that- I'm not that goofy. But the fun thing is that eight out of ten trucks either honked back at us or happily waved. The other two trucks chanted to themselves, "no eye contact-no eye contact". Then the trucks passed by in a whoosh!  This one had bales of hay

The other four towns on our route today had an average population of 71. Very quaint in a European way

Another three different Camino motifs

Other misc things that took our fancy. A classic church

A peaceful by-way where we ate lunch

These are neat - recycling bins. When they need to be emptied, a big truck comes along with a crane attached to it

The operator hooks the chain onto this loop on the top, lifts it up over the bed of the truck, pulls something, and the contents spew out the bottom of the container. Neat. 

A four spigot fountain 

With this sign. "Water not guaranteed to be sanitary"

Dad decided this water would be sanitary

A greenhouse with big plastic tubs, probably for water

Beautiful lace curtains behind barred windows. 

Trees in private yards often have these sorts of decorations around them. 

Finally got to our alberge. It is the historic Hospital la Reins which hosted up to 18,000 pilgrims per year in the 17th century. It has been converted into a boutique hotel and into a lesser boutique alberge

Our boutique clothes drying on the line and our boutique beds

Time for dinner in a nicer than normal dinning area. Guess it is boutiqueish!