October 12 2019 Grace got in at like 1:15 am. The hostal was kinda noisy last night so I was up. The taxi got her smooth and sound! We woke up at like 740 am to pack her bag and get it down to the delivery service There’s a service you can pay to take…
Author: Lauren Hsu
Hiking Day 10: Santo Domingo.. > Belorado
October 11 2019 My leftovers from dinner made a pretty superb breakfast sammy this morning I get so proud of myself when I can buy barely any groceries so as to not waste but then have two tasty meals out of them. #thelittlethings amiright? Except, I will admit, the broccoli. I’ve been buying broccoli to…
Hiking Day 9: Najera to Santo Domingo de la Calzada
October 10 2019 Today’s hike was pretty meh. It can’t be all sunshine and rainbows. So I don’t have a ton to say about today’s hike Woke up late on accident Had some issues with my shoes It got grossly hot today- the one day I wore pants instead of shorts Went from vineyards to…
Hiking Day 8: Logrono > Najera
October 09 2019 I woke up around 530am so tip toed around and then finally left by 7. I walked nervously through my sketchy area to the trail. Took me 22min. Lying Hostal lady! Once I got started, I barely saw people today. Idk if people rested in Logrono because it was a big city…
Hiking Day 7: Los Arcos > Logrono
October 08 2019 The easy day did wonders for me. I slept like 12 hours yesterday and today I woke up and was able to eat breakfast and get an earlier start I had the rest of my chicken and a pre bought coffee which was actually amazing and set out around 7. I wanted…
Hiking Day 6: Ayegui > Los Arcos
October 07 2019 Woke up around 6. Rolled around for a while and finally got up and slammed two yogurts and a dry crust of bread from last night. I was hungry but couldn’t bring myself to eat last nights dinner (tuna and olives) bleck not at 6am. Headed out around 730 am. It’s still…
Hiking Day 5: Puenta de la Reina > Ayegui
October 06 2019 This.shit.is.hard. It’s not that the route is particularly steep. It’s just the day in and out on your feet for a lot of miles every day. This is a high level idea of the day: 6-630 am wake up. Pack bag up, get feet ready (blister tape, Vaseline etc.) 730am breakfast 8am…
Hiking Day 4: Pamplona > Puenta de la Reina
October 05 2019 I was kind of putzy this morning. Maybe staying by yourself does that to you. I got out finally around 7:30am Went to the only bar open for breakfast They had no menu so I waited for the guy in front of me to order and then said “el mismo del Chico”…
Hiking Day 3: to Pamplona!
October 04 2019 Day 3 and I’m so happy! I slept all night! And the extra 3 miles we did yesterday means today is only 12 miles! I started the day feeling like a million bucks. I was walking super fast. About three hours in, I started to feel my blister. On my baby toe….
Hiking Day 2: Roncesvalles > Urdániz
October 03 2019 I slept really bad again. Even thou only one dude out of 36 beds snored… [what are the chances?!] I couldn’t sleep. Rolled around awake from like 130am to 5am. 😴 6 am alarm went off and I felt 💀 My bunk mate was really sweet. Middle aged woman from UK named…