Cassanova to Ribadisco: October 3, 2014: Day 35
Our days on the Camino are winding down. We are now only 2 or 3 days from reaching Santiago. We are all getting excited and anxious about the end. Our friend Jack will leave us tomorrow. He already reached Santiago once but then learned that his wife was flying over to meet him. However she will not arrive until the 4th. So he took a bus back to Sarria where we met him, to walk the last 100 kilometers again. We tease him that he was sent back because he needed to do more penitence for his sins.
Our group, like the group from The Way have now been traveling together for several days and have begun to feel a kind of commitment to one another. We take turns walking with each other. We don't plan who we will walk with us it just changes naturally without much thought. Someone may walk ahead at a faster pace or fall behind taking pictures. We all agree we want some time alone. Today I needed to stop at an ATM and a pharmacy and so I fell behind. A couple hours later I stopped for a soda and Angie and Jack came by. Hubert was farther back taking pictures. Don and Myles had gone ahead. However by 4:00 we were all at the albergay checking in and getting ready to have a beer. Tonight we are celebrating Jack's last night with us. Each day we share we are learning more about each other and becoming closer. It is a very special experience having so much time to walk and talk.
The land is beautiful and green. Trees often cover the walking. We are walking over rolling hills. The climbs can be fairly steep and long. The last hill today we walked with a young Irish lad of 27. He is almost 7 feet tall. We first met him 3 weeks ago and thought for sure that he would be done by now. He developed tendinitis and was able to walk for 5 days. Since that time his days have been limited to 10 to 15 kilometers.
Lesson learned: Even though we do not know what is around the next bend we walk-on. We never know what joy awaits us.
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