{"id":3377,"date":"2022-07-21T02:42:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T09:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/?p=3377"},"modified":"2022-07-31T03:31:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T10:31:16","slug":"salceda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/?p=3377","title":{"rendered":"Salceda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is the penultimate day of our long journey and what a difference a few days makes. The trail is virtually empty and it all feels similar to those early days back in the Pyrenees where it was just us.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_3701-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 3701 copy\" title=\"IMG_3701 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_3700-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 3700 copy\" title=\"IMG_3700 copy.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have some anxiety that the end is now too close and that I haven&#8217;t had enough time to discover what about myself I needed to learn. Sure, I have had more opportunity to simply reflect than I probably ever have, but what if it isn&#8217;t enough? People say the camino changes you, but do I feel any different? What if nothing comes of this time away other than sore feet and a long-term aversion to bocadillos?<\/p>\n<p>As we pass through Arz\u00c3\u00baa, the Camino Frances (the route we are on) merges with the Camino del Norte (the route that follows the coast) and I learn a bit more about that hike from a fellow pilgrim that has also travelled from France.  Assuming our Buddhist friend is right and we will be called back here, I figure I might as well plan ahead. Efe Bomba does not seem on board with this plan.<\/p>\n<p>We have just a few more more miles left to our final albergue in Salceda, and from there, just 27, mostly dowhill kilometers into Santiago de Compostela.  We&#8217;ve booked rooms in the same Marriott we stayed in last year so once Efe Bomba smells that in the air, I know she&#8217;ll set a quick pace and help us finish strong.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_3703-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 3703 copy\" title=\"IMG_3703 copy.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It seems crazy, but we really have almost done it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the penultimate day of our long journey and what a difference a few days makes. The trail is virtually empty and it all feels similar to those early days back in the Pyrenees where it was just us. I have some anxiety that the end is now too close and that I haven&#8217;t [&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-3377","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\/3377","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=3377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3378,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions\/3378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}