Tuesday, October 17, 2023 – Today started as a shit show. I couldn’t sleep. Not because the room was noisy. Not because I had the journey ahead on my mind. Not because I was in pain. I just couldn’t fall asleep. So, at 5 am, I called it. I got up and by 530, I had started walking. It was slightly raining and had even stopped by the time I got to the river, so I put my rain coat away. But, the wind was howling. The weather app said about 33 mph. Eventually the precipitation started up again and I had to pull out my jacket near the river. As I took my pack off and put it on the ground, I realized my pack’s raincover was missing. I assume it has been ripped off by the wind. This was looking to be an extremely wet Camino, so I had to find or replace it ASAP.
I hailed a cab (it was 7 am) and we looked up and down where I had just walked. No luck. I decided to turn around and search on for for a while. No joy.
At this point, I walked to a hotel that I had just passed and availed myself of their breakfast buffet and looked for a hiking store.
Unfortunately, the only camping store around opened at 930 am. So I had we’re wasted those early hours and had to take a taxi a block from where I had began in the morning. I got there at 930 and the worker didn’t open the store until 950.
Onec I was done, I got a ride back to where I had realized I lost my cover and started my walk for the day.
I also left my Samsung ear buds at a bar. But fortunately, I only had a tiny blister and the albergue is clean. I had some pizza and am falling asleep when I type this. I also think all my clothes will be dry by tomorrow. Here’s the pics from today:
Tatiana is from Ukrainian and living in Poland. We shared some pizza and drinks together.
