Day 28 - Leon - preparing for the next leg.

"City of Leon 08 04 30 09:57

Today we are getting ourselves organized to start the last 260 km of the Camino tomorrow. We have sorted carefully through our packs and will carry only what we need for the next 15 days. Everything else will be sent by Correos (mail) to our hotel in Santiago. So my pack will be lighter than at any time since I started.

Dad"

The next part is from Jean. The post titled Da y 27 - Leon - Welcoming los Nuevos Peregrinos came in an email from Jean with the subject line "Dad's Hat". As you will see if you read (or reread) that post, there was nothing about dad's hat in the email. The following was in reply to my astute question of "What does this have to do with Dad's hat?"

"Oh yes...I forgot to tell you that part. It was late last night and I was tired.
Dad lost his Tilley hat; he took it to the laundry and when he picked up his clothes it wasn’t there. However, the laundry lady tracked it down and Dad has his hat again. Yesterday we were out for a walk and the wind blew his hat off.... a pretty young woman ran after it and once again... Dad has his hat!

Today we have done messages. Went to the post office and sent a box of clothes ahead to our hotel in Santiago. Then we went to the train station to see about taking the train to Astorga tomorrow. This is Dad’s method of shortening the trail by 56 km so that we are not so stretched. However, tomorrow is a holiday for Santa Domingo so the train is not going to Astorga. Sue was able to make the reservations for part of our post hike trip. Dad and I found the bus depot and there is 1 bus going to Astorga tomorrow so we bought 4 tickets and will take the 10:30 bus to Astorga and then hike 10 or 11 km to the Refugio....my big test!

I thought that Dad had a lot of typos in his emails. I have now experienced the computer and there are some differences from home. I seem to have a lot of typos too! Weather is nice today and I am beginning to recognize pilgrims....they seem to be everywhere.
We have a computer available at the hostel where we are staying in Leon but will not have for the next couple of days."

Jean