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Jackie O’ Soul Searcher Blog Entry

Hey Everyone,
Thanks for all the messages and comments on my blog and on the photos´on FB. I truly appreciate them all. It makes me feel closer to home.

After I left you last time, I was in Puenta La Reina. A large town or small city. I was staying in an Albergue that didn´t really have any charm to it. It was in the basement of a hotel. I found out later that there were 2 more there. One was an ancient one in the middle of the city and one was a brand new “chain” albergue just on the other side. I would have preferred to stay in the ancient one of course.

As it turned out, it was good to stay where I was because I ended up meeting a nice young man, Brendon, from LA. So had dinner with him and chatted a bit and then went to bed. Nothing too exciting here.

Next morning it was raining pretty hard. It made the city seem dismal and walking along the main street felt like I was in an old movie. It was damp and chilly but I was quite happy that it was raining. My nose was SO burnt, it was good to be out of the sun for a day or 2. I had my poncho on and tried to keep my arms inside the poncho so they would stay dry. But using my sticks made it a bit difficult to do it. I finally got the hang of it, tho. As I walked out of the city on a path that went along a red pepper farm, my pants were getting more and more wet and even tho I was covered from the knees up, the wet was creeping up my legs so I decided to remove the bottoms of my pants and walk in my shorts. The poncho was sticking to my legs, but at least the top part of my shorts were staying dry.

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