My Journey on the Camino de Santiago: Logroño to Najera--blisters, party of three?

Hey folks,

We had another good weather day, thanking God for the dry and mostly clear skies. Today was probably the toughest hike in the past week aside from the first day.

We left a little after 7am this morning and made great time to Najera, about 30km or so from Logroño where we stayed last night at the parish albergue. Staying there was a very neat experience and we met alot of nice people from probably 15+ countries. In particular at dinner there were people from Belgium, North Korea, England, and Mexico. The folks from Mexico actually live not far from where I studied Spanish in 2006, so that was a nice ice-breaker and conversation sustainer. The meal was simple: hearty vegetable soup, salad, bread, and some watermelon--again, all through donations, so one shouldn´t expect prime rib or anything :)

We slept on mats on the floor and all shared one bathroom--segregated of course. Mass was before dinner and then they had a pilgrims blessing, dinner, and multilingual evening prayer, which was very nice and a good way to end the day.

Today, Will, from the Inguun and Will mentioned in the previous posts, joined Jason and I for the hike to Najera. He is a pretty cool guy who has been all over the world and lead and interesting life. I got to talk to him one-on-one for a couple hours this morning while we were hiking and he shared a lot about his past, his relationships with family members, and his experience of faith. God has brought a lot of people into our lives over the past week, and I believe that we have met Will in order to ask for prayer and to pray for him. He´s been through a lot and needs a great deal of prayer. Please keep him in yours especially over the next month.

Well, as promised, here are some of the latest pictures from the past couple days.

This is me taking a sip of wine from my pilgrim shell poured from an actual wine fountain.