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Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis

Episode #487 - Days Thirteen to Fifteen on the Camino de Santiago

Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis

Steve Adams

Sports, Wilderness

4.8599 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Past the two-week mark and into the Meseta, the journey continues with intimate conversation, communal meals, and changing, yet still beautiful scenery. 
We also catch up with Beth and Andrew as they move on from Trail Days. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network, where we taught the walk with shows by hikers about hikers for everybody. Thank you. Hey guys, welcome back to the show.

0:43.7

You're listening to the Camino de Santiago edition of the Mighty Blue and the Appalachian Trail Podcast.

0:49.7

I'm your host, Steve Adams, currently walking the Camino.

0:52.7

And by the way, they don't have trail names here, so I'm definitely Steve.

0:56.2

I'm not mighty blue.

0:58.5

I'm still going strongly and I'm experiencing this Camino in a way that I never experienced

1:02.6

it first time and it's been a revelation to me.

1:06.1

Today we're going to cover days number 13 to 15 and we'll be catching up with Beth and

1:10.7

Andrew as well

1:11.6

after they've left trail days and are now in Adkins Virginia. I'm phrasing I have to excuse some

1:17.2

hesitation in my voice because I've got some sort of throat bug and I've had to pause some of the

1:21.4

recordings partway through to basically cough my guts up And so it may seem a little disconnected.

1:29.6

I'm not sure.

1:31.1

Hopefully this is going to pass by the next show.

1:35.1

But let's get to it and hear what happened on days number 13 and number 14.

1:41.9

Day 13, Atabwega 163.5 to Burgos, Mar 176.0, just a 12.5 mile day.

1:52.4

The following morning, there was coffee available in the small kitchen upstairs, so I had a drop of that.

1:58.3

There was no food, though several people kindly offered me some, all of which I declined.

2:03.1

There are so many fewer opportunities for food in this Camino than I recall from last time,

2:07.7

so I thanked people and headed out at about 7.45.

2:11.5

Happily, just 100 yards later?

2:14.4

I found a shop which supplied coffee and cake, so I put a muffin and coffee. I ran into

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