Traveling the Camino

Yesterday afternoon hit me pretty tough. I've been asking marnix for pictures he took of Spain for the past month and he keeps blowing me off and then sending them to emma and I've complained about it to emma and she said she would ask him because hell do anything for her. So he texted me about 10 pictures today but I already had them so I told him I appreciated it but i already had those and then he came back with a super aggressive text saying that I should ask him for the pictures not emma and he knows I don't like him but to not try to make him upset. So I told him to take joke and then he texted emma saying how mad he was at me. And emma is on my side because he blew up for no reason but I hate having people not like me or be mad at me so my chest tightened up and I got nervous it would affect my relationship with emma since I know me and marnix are both close with her. But I still don't think he's a good person in my life and I know I'll never see him aga...

July 24 My feet still felt like garbage so once again I spent most of my day in bed. Emma will and I went to the grocery store and I got chocolate covered Oreos and of course the tomato and garlic lays chips which was basically my only meal of the day. I laid in bed watching Netflix. Corbyn slept for 30 hours straight basically is slowly starting to get better. I'm frustrated my feet feel so awful. Emma went on a hike up to the top of a mountain and had beautiful pics and I didn't go because I knew my feet would be so miserable. It's hard trying to balance with pushing myself and not injuring myself beyond repair. The albergue made us dinner again. Tonight was salad and then rice and lentils which was really simple but filling and pretty good considering the class budget covered it. Given, the class budget is money I paid a couple months ago so it's not really free but it makes me feel better about myself so I'll take it. After that we walked 2.5 kilometers up...

July 22 Today was a rest day so this will be very short and boring. My feet are killing me since I pushed myself yesterday so I haven't really left the albergue today besides getting food. Emma is tired too so we've just been laying in bed and napping on and off. Everyone else went to the beach but it's a 2km hike there and I really don't think I could do it. It sucks that when I'm proud of pushing myself my body hates me and so the next day I spent all day in bed and don't get to explore. It's not horrible though. I know my body needs it I just wish I got to experience Muxia more. Me emma Christian and anna went out and got mojitos and fries for dinner and then bought ice cream at the super market and just hung out and ate. I really like Anna and Christian so it's gonna be hard when they leave in a couple days. July 23 Emma and I woke up around 6am to hike the last 30km. She fried us some eggs we had left over from our egg sandwiches yesterday a...

July 21 Emma and I walked the whole 33 km to Muxia today. It was definitely difficult at the end but felt good to be able to walk the full day especially  since it was a long day for everyone. When we saw the ocean from the top of a hill we both got so excited and motivated but we didn't know it was another 8km hike from that point because we had to walk all the way around the peninsula and the Camino kept winding so it was really frustrating and I was getting super cranky by the end of it. But eventually we got to the white sand beach and stripped and put my feet in the ocean with Steven and kip and Lucas and will. Most of them went fully in the water but it was way too cold so I just stood with my feet in the sand and cold water and then laid down and just enjoyed the feeling. I was so much happier reaching Muxia than I was when I got to Santiago. It felt like a real accomplishment. We had started in France and walked across the entire country of Spain. That sounds crazy to s...

July 20 Today me and emma woke up around 5am to start hiking early since it was a 32km day and we had to try to all get to the municipal albergue since we didn't have a reservation and there were only 40 beds. After about 3km we made a wrong turn since we followed the scallop shell on a building and it was too dark to see the yellow arrows painted on the ground going the opposite direction. So we walked an extra 5km through some dark farm roads trying to navigate around and eventually we just turned around and found the yellow arrows. So then everyone got ahead of us and we ended up an hour behind our planned schedule. It was a painful walk for the both of us and although I had sent my pack ahead my feet were killing me with every step and my tendonitis in my right foot started sending shooting pains. So after 17.5 km of us walking we got to the first cafe and decided to taxi. Anna and Christian were there and seemed defeated so then anna said she would also taxi with us and th...

July 19 Emma and I agreed last night we would bus today since we were in so much pain yesterday so we slept in until about 8 and then went to a wonderful little pastry shop and got coffee and a chocolate croissant and a fruit tart. After that we went to a grocery store and bought some fruit and got to the bus about 10 minutes before we left. The bus ride was pretty and it was drizzling so the forests seemed extra magical. When we got to town we tried to find the public albergue and then gave up and just went to a cafe-bar where I had my first beer at 1030am. Then we just wandered around town looking for the albergue and eventually I looked up directions and we found will and the 3 of us walked out of town up a giant mountain to get to this albergue. I didn't know which private albergue kip had made my reservation for so I couldn't check in so I just hung out with Will Lucas Christian Anna and emma until their albergue opened up and they checked in and then me and emma went ...