We moved with the River on a bright sunny day listening to Saunder’s A Swim in a Pond in in the Rain and then Carroll’s Constantine’s Sword, not speaking much but fully connected through our Ear Pods. This was an easy stage, mild undulations through pine, eucalyptus and gum forests along streams and creeks.  

 This evening as we ate dinner at a restaurant along the River Umia we met Derrek from New Castle and Chris from London who were walking from Porto to Campostela at a 40 km clip per day and had the blisters and sore muscles to show for it.  They climbed Kilimanjaro and to Everest base camp over the last couple of years, but, they said, this Camino was the most difficult thing they have done, which made us wonder if we were completely unmoored from reality.