June 28-29, 2017:
At this point, I'm sure you're growing bored but for the few who are still hanging on. Today, I left Santiago, I had no idea if I'd ever return (I have). My route back to Dallas first took me to A Coruña where I'd hoped to spend a couple relaxing days on the beach. My friend Paul and his sister Becky had sent pictures of a giant beach party under sunny skies. Well, the storm that moved in yesterday as we walked down from the lighthouse is still hanging around. When my train arrived in A Coruña, it was gray with a driving rain and pretty darn cool on the beach. The weather matched my mood. Gray and gloomy and now, totally removed from my friends and Camino Family. Blah!
I did though walk to the Tower of Hercules which I highly recommend. I was staying at a nice hotel (sheets, hot water, bar, nice restaurant) which was sort of disorienting. I asked the gentleman at the desk how to get to the tower, he told me and said he would call me a Taxi as it was 5k to the tower. I didn't mean to be rude but I broke out laughing. He asked why I was laughing and I explained that I'd just finished walking the Camino so 5km X 2 was just about time for second breakfast.
June 29th required some retail therapy, not something that I would normally resort to. I woke up and put on the same clothes that I'd arrived in and more or less had worn every day for now almost 45 days. As I looked in the mirror, I saw gray shirt in a gray hotel room on a very gray day. To make a long story short, a sales clerk at el Corté Inglés had a good sales day. I decided that I was not flying home the next day it my dingy (but loved) Camino attire.
As I sat in the bar next to the hotel (the hotel bar was far too nice), I realized how much I missed my people. A daily ritual while on the Camino was to have 'the best beer I've ever had in the world...today' with my friends. On this day, all alone, I had the 'worst beer I've ever had in the world...today'. Fortunately, there's always tomorrow.
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