Today was 14 miles bringing the total to 463 miles walked over all. With the opportunity to join up with Willow today, Diane and I walked quickly from our stopping place yesterday, Sobrado to Arzua, in order to catch the first bus back to Sarria. We pushed it! We have never walked that distance with packs on at a pace of under 20 minutes like this. We will make it a point not to do this too often.

The walk starting today just outside of the monastery at Sobrado dos Monxes.  We quickly passed through forest, pasture land, and farms. Cute alert! Diane couldn’t let me pass up a photo of these two guys. Clearly one is shy and doesn’t want to face the camera.

We reached Arzua, and the bus station with about 5 minutes to spare. Two bus rides later, we were in the streets of Sarria, looking for our hotel. Without much difficulty, we found it but noticed that my sister hadn’t yet arrived.

Bill mustered a search party and in short order found her on the trail working her way up towards the hotel. A great reunion was had!

Willow came bearing gifts, of which we were most appreciative. One of the gifts was replacement tips for hiking poles. We used the tips when we are on road surfaces, but use the pole spikes when we are on dirt surfaces. About 75% of our 450 plus miles of hiking was on road surfaces. The picture below gives an idea of what the roads will do to these tips. Thank you Willow, so much for bringing these and many other wonderful gifts to us.

Enough for now, we are going to enjoy Sarria as a family.