Episode #112 - Camino De Santiago (Days Fourteen to Sixteen)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
With about 50 miles for the past three days, Steve and Emma have been making their way through the Meseta, finding gems like the town of Hontanas and its gloriously lit church.

Their middle was all about the beauty of Castrojeriz and the way it dominates its surroundings.

The weather is also starting to turn, with frigid temps in the mornings and fears of snow in the near future.

If you'd like to communicate with Steve, please email him at Steve@mightyblueontheat.com.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network, where we talk the walk with shows by hikers, about hikers, for everybody. Hi and welcome back to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the Camino de Santiago edition. |
| 0:46.2 | And how, though it is for me to believe, we're now into our third week. |
| 0:50.5 | And today we've got days 14, 15 and 16. |
| 0:56.1 | Somebody actually wrote to the show and asked me where we get our water. |
| 0:59.9 | Well, to be honest with you, we're not drinking as much water we should do. |
| 1:04.1 | Quite a few of the towns have no fountains for people to fill their water bottles up. |
| 1:10.5 | And I do that, but I must say, |
| 1:12.5 | Emma isn't drinking anywhere near as much water as she should do. We drink a bit too much beer, |
| 1:18.0 | possibly, and probably not enough water, and we have coffee as well. But I try to drink as much |
| 1:23.4 | water as I can. I always try to fill up when I leave. I got up on these now gene bottles. I |
| 1:28.2 | try to fill up when I leave in the morning and I try to ask her to drink water. She does |
| 1:33.5 | sometimes but really not enough. But I don't think there's any real problems we get of water |
| 1:38.1 | because you know you stop in so many towns and you know we could I often do get water which |
| 1:43.6 | I fill my bottle up with either as i say |
| 1:46.1 | in these fountains or at some of the bars i sometimes get a bit of extra water so that's really |
| 1:51.7 | how we get that water and now by the way i'm meant to tell you also we are now committed to get back |
| 1:58.3 | home and finish on the saturday the 10th of November. We've |
| 2:04.2 | actually booked a flight, which was a bit risky. The flight is from Santiago at about 10 past |
| 2:12.5 | 5 on that Saturday afternoon. So our plans to get back on time, we've just got to keep these miles going. |
| 2:19.8 | And as you can see this week, these last three days, we've done pretty well on those miles. |
| 2:24.3 | But you're going to hear that right now by our best day of all, day number 14, coming up right now. |
| 2:34.3 | Day 14. And we had a walk from Burgess, which was at mile 175.7 to Hontanus at mile |
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