Decisions, decisions…
We would wake up this morning with an excellent rest, at a most excellent gite and sent of by our lovely hosts Sabine and Sylvain, a two days hike would put us in Conques the ending point for most of the people we are hiking with. We’ve met only a handful of people going to Santiago and only a handful of non-French. Laurence would explain with school starting back up things would be quieter on the Camino after this point.
When the kids and I came about two weeks separated our timeframes from this one, and the difference in activity was night and day. Is it because of Covid? is it because of popularity, is it because of time frame…? I suspect all three…
We had reservations in Estaing, for many, there was no place to stay, and we did know this was pre-reservation was needed. Today would be a normal hiking day and tomorrow a long one at a time we wanted our evening energy to listen to the monk's organ music, have dinner at the monastery and see the light show of the Tympanum at the church. It would be our last night with Laurence a the boys and we didn’t want to be exhausted.
We arrived at Estaing, had a Coke, and decided to keep on going as close as we could to Golinhac and where the boys were staying. Their destination was complete, but we decided to stay in our hammocks. At 5:15 pm we decided to walk on, sent an email to our host for the evening offering our beds up for the evening, having no idea where our heads would rest this evening.
We shared that with “MomPower” ( our WhatsApp group with Laurence and the boys) and took off… I estimated 3 1/2 hours of walking. We both admitted we were tired but when we put it into perspective we were tired every day at any moment, so what was the difference? Upon departing from Estaing we ran i to Jeremy, the only American I’ve met so far, a lovely guy, heading to Santiago!!! He and his friend had no place to sleep nor the ability to sleep outside so we shared our reservation with them and they would text later to say they did indeed secure our beds which was a relief to us!
One hour from golinhac I texted MomPower a picture of the map saying we were a little over an hour away… we arrived at 8:45 at a campground with a gite where the kids and I had stayed five years before!!!!! The lady remembered us as “arriving late, eating lots of fries with ketchup, chocolate milk and being hungry”. Though I remember no one else really there tonight was busy!!!!! Though she had said she was full MomPower had beds in their rooms that we got to sleep in and we fell asleep relieved!!!! We could not be happier!!!!
What a huge sigh of relief and the right decision to keep walking there was no doubt!!!!
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