After eating breakfast at the albergue, we all boarded taxis to skip a ghastly downhill 7km walk and were dropped off in Triacastela. This was the day in 2024 where Jeff, Kimmy and I inadvertently zigged when we should have zagged and added an additional 5-6 miles to our walk, We avoided that mistake this year.
Neither Cory nor I took particularly good photos today. I'll have to hit the students up for better images. I'll say that between the two routes (Samos route from 2024 or the route through Montán 2026), I think I preferred the 2026 option. Good views, good cafe stops, and 2 hours shorter. I mentioned in an earlier post that we've had a few mid-trail breaks at places where our auras definitely get fluffed, and today was like, the most epic aura fluffing. It was a very cool commune with sustainable practices and I loved its message of sharing peace and love and joy, but also lots of aura fluffing.
I also broke my own rule of never going off-route to chase a cafe or a sightseeing destination (I'm very lazy) but we did find good tapas at a riverside cafe in Sarria that was like...2 minutes off route.
Worth noting is that Sarria is just over 100km to Santiago de Compostella, and in order to get your pilgrim credential, you have to walk at least 100k, so many pilgrims start their walk from Sarria. We moved through Sarria to Barbadelo (it's the one albergue that has an open pool!), but as a peregrino (pilgrim), you can see the massive influx of folks walking the Camino from Sarria to Compostela. More cafes, more souvenirs, and more trail traffic.
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