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[QUOTE="Fuertebrazos, post: 1076447, member: 98316"] Day 3: Delightfully cool day, overcast with intermittent light rain. Wore jacket all day (to stay dry rather than warm). Heeding the warnings about distance and lack of water, I took a taxi to the entrance of the Parque Natural Sierra Norte and walked only the last 10 km. (Don't judge me!) It still wasn't easy - lots of hills. And the taxi was expensive. I imagine that my price isn't what the locals pay. I can see why the conquistadores felt so at home in Mexico and the American Southwest. Not the arid parts, but around the 10" rainfall line, which bisects Texas and runs down into northern Mexico. Where farming dies and the range begins. That's what this landscape feels like. And Spain became like the New World too. Yesterday I Wikipedia'd cacti and discovered that it existed only in America and arrived in Europe with the Spanish. People complain that regional differences are disappearing. It's been happening forever. Convergent evolution. Lots of skittish deer in the park, bounding into the hills to watch cautiously from a distance. Also I came across a giant truck being loaded with firewood. Is this part of Europe's preparation for a winter without Russian gas? My friends in Germany can't buy firewood anymore. It's being hoarded. I'm staying in pensions, not albergues. On the first night on my first Camino, I stayed in an albergue in León. Forty beds in a big room. A night of people walking by on the way to the bathroom. Darkness sparkling with iPhones and tablets. I didn't get a lick of sleep and left to start walking at 3:30 a.m. Hence the decision to avoid albergues. Instead, a private room with a bathroom and shower. But everyone else seems to use them, and my sample size is one. Perhaps it's time to reconsider. Pilgrims today: 2. I passed a few along the road when I was in the taxi, but while walking I met only a pair of Korean men, both Camino veterans. Neither spoke Spanish, one spoke a little English. Tried Japanese, since a lot of older Koreans speak it. Nada. We walked together for a while, but couldn't really communicate. [/QUOTE]
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