Tuesday, June 12, 2012

The 12-Step Daily Routine of the Pilgrim

Every day, the pilgrim has a 12-Step Routine that we all follow, more or less...
  1. Get up very early. Usually you are on the road walking between 6am and 7am. Well that is me and I was a late riser, according to some.
  2. Walk until the first town where you can buy a cafe con leche and maybe a piece of tortilla (which is an egg pie, not a corn chip).
  3. Walk to another town and have another coffee.
  4. Repeat #3 above until you arrive at the town you want to sleep in.
  5. Register at the albergue, pay for your bed, get your pilgrim passport stamped, and put your sleeping bag on an empty bed (hopefully one on the lower of the bunk beds).
  6. Shower.
  7. Wash your clothes by hand and hang them up to dry. Sometimes this is combined with #6.
  8. Sometimes a little siesta is in order if you can manage it.
  9. Wander around town (because for some reason, you haven't walked enough).
  10. Eat dinner, collect your laundry and kill a little time.
  11. Sleep.
  12. Go back to #1.

Number 7 above is the most tedious but in the better places they provide a place for you to wash your clothes. LOL ;-)

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