{"id":2954,"date":"2021-10-18T02:28:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T09:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/?p=2954"},"modified":"2021-10-20T09:29:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T16:29:29","slug":"trail-life-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/?p=2954","title":{"rendered":"Trail Life &#8211; Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our group is in surprisingly good spirits this morning, given that we are checking out of a luxury hotel and heading out, on foot, into the unknown. We&#8217;ve downsized our luggage into two small day packs, leaving the rest here for when we return. For $4\/day, it is possible to have a shuttle service take your bags to your next stop, but we&#8217;re not quite sure how that works on the last day when you actually need to get it back to where you started. If we were going for longer we&#8217;d spend the time to figure it out but, given there are towns every few miles and places to stay every night, we&#8217;re confident we can manage with pretty limited supplies.<\/p>\n<p>As with all long distance hikes, plenty of happy, optimistic pictures to kick things off &#8211; including the only know photo in existence of my trail partner with her backpack on her back &#8211; then slowly becoming fewer a further between and reality sets in and the mood becomes a little less jovial. That said, as we walk through the countryside, it is hard not to appreciate what we have the opportunity here to see.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1763-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 1763 copy\" title=\"IMG_1763 copy.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1764-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 1764 copy\" title=\"IMG_1764 copy.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1766-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 1766 copy\" title=\"IMG_1766 copy.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1775-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 1775 copy\" title=\"IMG_1775 copy.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1781-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 1781 copy\" title=\"IMG_1781 copy.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our first stop is in the small town of Negreira. We&#8217;re past the age where we need to crash on a bunk in a dormitory, but accommodations are the trail are still a little spartan. After 12 miles though one cares about such things a whole lot less.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_1784.png\" alt=\"IMG 1784\" title=\"IMG_1784.PNG\" border=\"0\" width=\"278\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our group is in surprisingly good spirits this morning, given that we are checking out of a luxury hotel and heading out, on foot, into the unknown. We&#8217;ve downsized our luggage into two small day packs, leaving the rest here for when we return. For $4\/day, it is possible to have a shuttle service take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2956,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions\/2956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}