Before getting to the details of the day, I want to say that I have had it hasta la gorra (up to here, lit. up to the hat) with tuna. I am so sick of it that I am going to take my chances tomorrow with a warmed-up-from-dinner scrambled eggs with cod and a salad (not warmed up) that the hotel will give me for lunch. I hope it will be tasty. The hotel restaurant does get excellent reviews, but dinner time is too late for me to attend.
For three nights I will be staying at Hotel Bi Terra which is far from everywhere. A taxista, Sergio by name, is ferrying me back and forth to the walk sites. He is awfully nice! I had to wait for him for over an hour today because a big part of his job is taking sick, elderly people to doctors´appointments, to the pharmacy, to the grocery, and on other errands. This is not an uncommon job for taxi drivers in rural areas. For me, the wait was not an issue; the weather was fine, I bought a Magnum as in ice cream, and worked on the Spelling Bee. While so engaged I met a woman whose walking companion had quit after a few days because the walk was so difficult. The survivor of the pair said that her (not the frined´s) feet were just killing her from all the asphalt.
As anticipated, the stage today was not difficult, only 12 miles, not spectacular by any means, but fine.
We will now see some trees or parts of trees.
We CAN see the tree
Tree making the most of a not great situation:
It is notable that the cemetery is way more decorative than the church.
Sergio told me—and he should know— that these elevated storage things are used to dry corn. They are quite picturesque, are they not!
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