June 20, Paresotas to Bóveda

To be consistent and continue kvetching, I will complain today about, oh, I almost forgot this one: at the start of the walk there was an arrow with a waymark sign. Let's say it was pointing north.  Guess what?  You were supposed to go east.  15 minutes lost there.  Then there were the wretched wheat and barley fields, and the waymarks "that were probably lost," and an instruction to "enter the trees," but where??!!  All this has led me to a decision—maybe.  When the GPS track and Viewranger disagree, go with Viewranger.  The problem with that is that it is easier to follow the GPS readout than Viewranger's.

Another navigational issue is that sometimes you can be going in the correct direction but not at the right place.  For example, say you were walking to the Yale campus from the direction of Hamden.  It could make a difference if you walked along Prospect, Whitney, or Orange because you would not end up at Wolsey Hall in each case.  Not having anyway to compensate for that out here in the wilds, because there may be impassable shrubbery or a ravine, or a wall or some other impediment as opposed to cross street, makes that issue another time loser. Most often you just have to go back since you may only be able to get to X from A but not B or C.

This was an easy fence to get through.  What you do is you pull the wooden pole that has the blue string around it towards the fatter pole.  Then you can slide the cord over the top.   If you pull the  wooden pole up from the hole in the ground where it is seated, the whole fence sort of collapses, but no matter, you go through, put the pole back in the hole and then pull as hard as you can to get the pole close enough to fat pole so that you can put the blue cord around it again.  This happened to be an easy fence to deal with.



Foal:

Not a foal:

If you don't like Bóveda, you can take a bus, says John, (but I'd challenge him on that one)

But you'd be pretty silly to pass up the Casa Rural here in Boveda.  It is a really really nice place where you even have kitchen  privileges.  And the very very nice lady gave me two eggs, bread, and a hearty rice dish she had cooked, so I had an omelette, rice, cucumber and tomatoes, toast, and a few other things.  What a great meal! She is also taking Rojita and Rojita's companion, Mochilita, to the next B and B.