We’re back in Park City after 13 days of hiking El Camino de Santiago from St. Jean Pied-de-Port in France, over the Pyrenees, down through parts of the Basque Country, and across Asturia and Galicia to Santiago de Compostela. My phone was acting up, and I wasn’t able to take any pictures, and I decided not to do a daily blog.

Mike loved the trek with my niece Lauren and her husband James. I wasn’t as thrilled, but made it to Santiago nonetheless. I took one day off due to extremely tight calves. and my cousin Mikel, a physical therapist, came to my rescue, bringing a portable TENS machine to Pamplona with his beautiful wife Ainara. We had a wonderful visit while we waited for Lauren, James, and Mike to meet us. We also had a fun visit with some of my other cousins: Ismael, Luken, Charo and her husband Ismael, their 2 sons Guillermo and Martin, and Mikel’s daughter Lucia. Charo’s husband Ismael walked with us for 2 days. We took a wrong turn and managed to find ourselves on a narrow trail with lots of sticker bushes. We finally made it back to the Camino by walking through a recently harvested wheat field.

We had beautiful, sunny weather for most of our trek, very unusual for that time of year. The rain finally caught up to us… or maybe WE finally caught up to the rain? one day before our final walk into Santiago. When we arrived in Santiago, the sun came out, and we happily shared a bottle of Champagne to celebrate another [partial] Camino.

My niece Lauren is a professional photographer, and I am so very grateful that she captured this journey!

Enjoy the pictures from St. Jean Pied-de-Port to Logroño, a brief stop in Leon, and Sarria to Santiago de Compostela.

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