Shorter walk challenging day!

Today our hike was a shorter hike at 12 1/2 miles as compared to 18 yesterday.

yesterday after hiking the 18 miles or so we both had about 45,000 steps. Robert had a few more for some reason but he had a goal of hitting 50,000 steps so after we ate dinner, we took a walk for another mile or so to get to that 50,000 for Robert! 50,000 steps in a day that’s a bunch of steps! Couldn’t get enough walking I guess in one day. Had to max the steps! LOL! I was really feeling it this morning. Had some pain in my feet particularly in my heels to start the day. I swapped my shoes out after about an hour and was able to make it most of the way without much difficulty but got pretty sore at the end of the day. We got to our hotel relatively early about 3 PM and staying off of my feet as much as possible right now.

other than my feet issues, the day was pretty nice for the most part. Weather was really great to start. We stopped about an hour or so and to get a cup of coffee and started raining while we’re at the café by the time we were done and we got our gear on it stopped raining so we started walking again. In about another hour or so into it, the rain hit and we were deluged for probably close to an hour but then the sun came out and we had blue skies for another hour or so until we got to our restaurant and started raining again.

it is Sunday so we made it to church. Got a couple pictures of the church and the pilgrim mass that we went to here in Arca, Spain always a blessing to be with the Lord in church for a little time when you can.

i’ll post what I have now but I have some videos that I would like to post too, but I’m having to wait on YouTube to verify my identity apparently since I’m in a different country, they want to make sure that I am who I say I am so I’ll post videos as soon as I can, but that’ll probably be tomorrow