{"id":3361,"date":"2022-07-18T13:44:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T20:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/?p=3361"},"modified":"2022-07-25T13:44:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T20:44:40","slug":"gonzar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/?p=3361","title":{"rendered":"Gonzar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What an amazing country. I feel bad that I didn&#8217;t notice it yesterday but knowing we were on our way, some kind locals put up a welcome mural of none other than our beloved Efe Bomba. Gestures like this really do lift our spirits and keep us pushing on to the end.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_3655-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 3655 copy\" title=\"IMG_3655 copy.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Something feels different about the trail today. I can&#8217;t quite put my finger on it, but looking at these two pictures, one from back on the meseta and one from this morning on the way out of town, there&#8217;s been a subtle change.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_3365-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 3365 copy\" title=\"IMG_3365 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\/2022\/07\/IMG_3658-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 3658 copy\" title=\"IMG_3658 copy.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As i mentioned before, Sarria is the closest city to where a person needs to walk from to earn a compostela so it is also the most popular place for those starting on the camino. I knew this coming in and was prepared for things to get busier but never in my wildest dreams did I expect this. It feels like the long walk back to parking lot after Disneyland closes. <\/p>\n<p>After weeks of near solitude, the noise this many people generate assaults the senses and I have a moment of panic that this is but a sample of what the next 5 days holds. Then I remember our first 20 miles days and, looking down at all the shiny new boots and the blisters they have in store, I get the feeling things might start to open back up fairly quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, by the time we close in on Portomarin, the typical stop for this stage, we&#8217;re able to find some quiet pockets in between clusters of people that started together this morning. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_3660-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 3660 copy\" title=\"IMG_3660 copy.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is encouraging, but even though we can move faster than the horde, they have already booked up all the available rooms and the closest one we are able to find means another 4 miles. Efe Bomba seems displeased, but I think she&#8217;s just upset she didn&#8217;t spot this fine, free hat before Nick. Such a sophisticated look. The lice are totally worth it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_3667-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 3667 copy\" title=\"IMG_3667 copy.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gonzar is but a speck of a town but it comes in the nick of time as, any further, and we&#8217;d be looking at a repeat of last year&#8217;s Finisterre protest where certain individuals simply sat down in the middle of the trail and refused to go a step further. Just under 50,000 steps is a new record for her though. Not too shabby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an amazing country. I feel bad that I didn&#8217;t notice it yesterday but knowing we were on our way, some kind locals put up a welcome mural of none other than our beloved Efe Bomba. Gestures like this really do lift our spirits and keep us pushing on to the end. Something feels different [&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-3361","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\/3361","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=3361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3362,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions\/3362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}