Episode #117 - Camino De Santiago (Days Thirty-one to Thirty-three)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
With just two days and about 32 miles left, Steve and Emma just had to contend with the torrential rain to get to Santiago.
While the journey proved to be a spiritual experience for many, the Pilgrim mass at the end was spectacular in its gravity and grave in its spectacle. The incense burner heightened those thoughts as it seemed to crash through the long aisles.
After 32 days and nearly 500 miles, our two adventurers made it to their ultimate destination, cold, wet, but very happy with their achievement.
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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, thanks so much for coming back to Mardi Blue on the Amnachton Trail, the Camino de Santiago edition. |
| 0:46.3 | And this is the very last edition. |
| 0:49.8 | So for those of you who have been with us all the time, thanks so much. |
| 0:52.4 | For those of you haven't been with us all the time or didn't enjoy the show, |
| 0:55.6 | don't worry. |
| 0:56.2 | Next Thursday, you're going to get another show, |
| 0:58.2 | which will be the old mighty blue show in its normal format. |
| 1:01.6 | And thanks for your patience for sticking with us, |
| 1:03.7 | and thanks for your patience for hanging around. |
| 1:07.4 | It was... |
| 1:09.0 | Oh, it's difficult to know how to end it, really, now. It was, oh, difficult to know how to end it really now. |
| 1:13.4 | It was a, it was a dramatic week for us, dramatic few days rather. |
| 1:19.3 | There's a certain inevitability about ending anything in life, I guess. |
| 1:23.6 | And we were just so looking forward to it. |
| 1:26.8 | So let's just get on with it and talk about what happened on day number 31. |
| 1:33.9 | Day 31, Malide, I think it is Malide, M-E-L-I-D-E, which is Mile 453 to Salceda, |
| 1:41.7 | mile 469.2, which is 16.2 miles. We woke up on day 31. I think the |
| 1:50.4 | enormity of the situation, well for us, the enormity of the situation was upon us. We knew there |
| 1:55.2 | wasn't long to go. We knew there was two days to go. We knew we were set to fly home on the |
| 1:59.8 | Saturday. And so we were set up to do it, |
| 2:04.1 | but we knew the weather was coming and hitting us hard already. We'd had a rain for quite a few |
| 2:08.7 | days. We were getting wetter and wetter. We were surviving without ponchos, basically. But we were just |
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