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We're now into the last few days of my Camino de Santiago trip for this year.

I'm at that funny stage.

Just a few days from the end where I'm looking back on my journey

and looking forward to being home in America, but also kind of sad that it's coming to a close.

As much I loved my first Camino with Miami, I've enjoyed this in such a different and more profound way.

I found the community I hoped I'd find and I expected to find.

And I've met people who've touched me deeply that have been so generous in their friendship

and who have been open to all sorts of conversations I would never imagine I would have with them.

It's going to be over this weekend and I'll be heading home, but I will take so many memories of this trip that will stay with me forever.

We're going to hear about days 29 and 30 in the moment and then day 31 later on.

But interspersed with those will be my conversation or my latest conversation with Dave Santee as he's now gone past the 1,200-mile mark.

So, for the last time before I return to America,

let's hear about and from the Camino.

Day 29, Las Harareas, Mile 382,

to Trekkostela, mile 400.1, an 18.1 mile day.

What a day this was.

I slept well, but was very intense about how the day was going to pan out.

And arranged a cab to pick me up at 6.30 a.m. and the bloke was there on time, and we set out.

Oh my God. The drive from Triacostella back to La Sereris took 45 minutes. The scenery was absolutely magnificent. But all I could think of

was that I was going to have to walk up and down here later in the day. It turns out it's about an

18-mile hike, so I knew I'd be up against it to make my

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