14 miles completed, bringing the total of 366 miles walked. Today was the very last day that we will walk along the coast. It was also the last day that we wouldn’t be in Astoria as we have now entered in the state of Galicia. This picture is the last of the coastal waters and the last of Astoria.

While I’ve done this once before, here’s a map of Spain with the red dot indicating where we started in Irun, Spain and the blue dot indicating where we are now. It is pretty dramatic!

Diane has been having some significant problems with her foot. The issue is her bunion, and the pictures we have of it don’t look good. I will spare the readers from seeing it.

As a result of this injury, we have been working very hard to minimize our walking. There were three choices possible today: the coastal route, the central route, and they rarely chosen route which drops below the river estuary. The  third route was used by pilgrims who feared crossing the river at its widest near the town of Ribadeo. We managed to catch the split between the coastal route and the central route. That saved us about 3 or 4 miles.

About 4 miles after that split Bill noticed that the way they were walking was heading quite a bit south and not consistent with the town which should be West and North. Turning on his phone’s GPS, he confirmed that things were not good.

Fortunately, using Google Maps and the phone GPS, and about 20 minutes of cross country walking, we were able to re-find the correct Camino. We only added about one additional mile to our walk. What might have been eight to 10 additional miles was avoided!

Finally, we made Ribadeo  and Galicia.

From here, we walk south and a little bit west for the next 80 to 100 miles, where we should encounter Willow somewhere along the Way.