Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Astorga to Acebo

Hey folks,


Today was another beautiful day--blue skies, cool temps--couldn´t ask for better.  But, we had a streak of crazy and we turned a 27km day into a 41km day.


Astorga was nice, a little bit bigger than most of the towns where we have been staying, but still small enough to be under the definition of quaint.  We are continuing to entertain the idea of going to Fatima, so that was one of the reasons behind our decision to push past our originally intended place of rest.  The town we made it to is Acebo, not too far from Ponferrada, our next "big" city.  This is where we are hoping to pick up Jason's guidebook that he left a couple weeks ago in an albergue in Grañon.  


I am not sure where the energy and strength came from that allowed us to walk 41km, but we are very thankful that it came.  We hooked back up with Matt, the guy I mentioned a couple posts ago from the States, and he is actually staying at the same albergue as we are.  We also saw Ben from Australia last night at our albergue in Astorga.  He got an email from me yesterday saying that we were staying in Astorga and so he ran over to the place we were staying and talked to us for a while.  Great guy and a lot of fun.  He is playing in an ultimate frisbee tournament this weekend in Barcelona, so watch for him on ESPN 4 or something.


The walk today was probably one of the most beautiful and I will put some pics of it below.  Hopefully we didn't overdo it.  I would hate to have another knee flare up. . .but we won't talk about that.  Today is our 20th day of walking and we have covered almost 550km.  We have seen a lot and are excited about what is to come.  Prayers are continuing to be lifted up for you guys.  Thanks for the ones you lift up for us.  Much love.


Paul


this pc won´t let me upload pics. . .sorry :(

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