Another Adventure in Spain!!

 After a year long delay due to Covid, Scot and Terry-the 2 “Pilgrims”-are finally ready to head to Spain where we will hike on two Paths (Caminos) for a total of 525 miles, before reaching Santiago de Compestela. We start on the France/Spain border at the town of Irun and head west on the Camino del Norte, following mostly along the northern coast of Spain for about 300 miles. 

At Oviedo we are joined by our good friend Bill Farrow, at which point we become 3 Pilgrims and we leave the Camino del Norte and begin hiking on the Camino Primitivo. The Primitivo is the oldest route to Santiago and enjoys some of the most dramatic Mountain View’s of any Camino. It is also the least traveled and the toughest to hike. In 2019, of the 350,000 people who hiked on one of the Camino and reached Santiago, only 14,000 of those hiked the Primitivo. 

We will follow the Primitivo path for 180 miles before joining the much more famous el Camino for the last 40 plus miles to Santiago.

Our hiking journey will begin April 6 and finish May 18. Forty days of hiking with a few rest days thrown in. We will ascend 60,000 feet and descend almost the same amount.

My hope is to blog at the end of most days with some short descriptions, some humor hopefully, and snippets of philosophical thoughts, as well as tales of adventure and misadventure I am certain. Lack of Wi-Fi connection and hiker fatigue might limit some of my posts.

If you wish, you can share our hike at 2pilgrims2paths.blogspot.com.

Time to close as our flight to London and on to Paris departs in a few hours!