July 1, day 7

I’m seeing a pattern.

7:50 drop luggage at reception, breakfast, nap for Caleb, depart 9:30.

Should be an easy 13.5 miles today and looks pretty level. Will report later🥾🥾

Later – mixed terrain, plenty of uphill and downhill. Mileage different than advertised as our hotel way past town entry☹️. We arrived st 4:35. Total 15.31 miles.

Punta de la Reina was a quaint town. Cute little shops and beautiful clustered houses. Also stopped for a quick prayer for our journey.

Sounds we hear over the silence –

Water bottle clanging against backpack, gravel crunching under our feet, distant mooing of cows, church bells ringing, crickets and cheery birds singing their song. Wind blowing in our faces.

I feel my worry lines fading away. Who knew that wind is natural Botox?

400 feet from our hotel we got chastised by police when we inadvertently walked onto a small round about trying to get on the right street. Policeman was quite insistent that we shouldn’t be there and I agreed. However, he was fairly unpleasant so I switched to English and that seemed to make it ok that we were stupid tourists. Sheesh!

Lucked out at this hotel. They have a laundry room!! So excited to have clean clothes.

We couldn’t finish our meal. Also comes with half a carafe of wine every dinner we’ve had so far. I donate most of it (ok – half) to another table so I’m making friends everywhere we go😁