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[QUOTE="Fuertebrazos, post: 1076091, member: 98316"] Thank you, Blister Bill, for your recommendation of the Wise Pilgrim app. I downloaded it and the map is superior to the one I had been using. Very useful. Buen Camino Day 2, VLDP: Guillena to Castillo Blanco. What I learned yesterday: 1. It's hot. 2. It's exhausting. 3. You sweat a lot. What I did today: 1. Started out with shorts. The two pairs of long pants are squished into the bottom of the bag, right up against the down jacket. 2. Light jacket in the a.m., off by 9:00. 3. Took out hiking poles immediately, rather than waiting until midday. 4. Two liters of water at breakfast, another bottle to carry. (Didn't urinate even after drinking so much. I must have been severely dehydrated.) No wandering around the city this time. One road, straight out of town. No possibility of getting lost. Fast vehicles with no shoulder for the first kilometer or two, then a turn into a long, dry track almost all the way to Castillo Blanco. Felt like Texas Hill Country right down to the shotgun shells scattered by the side of the path. (But minus the freeways and shopping centers.) Number of pilgrims seen today: Three. Two Spanish, one German. Rested with the German woman by the side of the path for a while. We talked about the blissful solitude of the VLDP. She had tried the Frances a few years earlier and, because it was so crowded, switched to the Norte. (I found that it was just as easy to be alone as it was to be social on the Frances; the problem occurred in the villages, which became colonies of travelers. Still, if you're looking to party, why not?) As for me, I told her that I was all socialed out from my week of dancing and lavish dinners on the Queen Mary, and that the VLDP was a welcome decompression. Which it is. Still, it's nice to meet a few new people along the way. Tomorrow's a long day. Time to wash my clothes and chill out. [/QUOTE]
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