Today was 9 miles and 1,100′ climbing. The totals are 205 miles walked and 18,000′ climbed!

The story of the day was rain!

Yesterday, the weather channel predicted lots of rain from yesterday afternoon until midnight, then clearing for today.

Well, it absolutely dumped yesterday evening! Rain, wind, thunder and lightning! We were going to go out to dinner but it was raining so hard that we canned that plan. Rather, Bill ran between raindrops to the local pizzeria (there are lots of local pizzerias) and picked up two pizzas, to go. Then a mad dash home and that was dinner!

This morning was supposed to be that “clearing”, not raining time. Well, we had maybe 30 minutes of clear, then it dumped! Some thunder, but no lightning or wind. But rain, rain and more rain!

And that rain kept dumping for 3 more hours. 3 cheers for the quality ponchos we wore!

As it started to clear, we saw this rainbow!

If you look closely at the right side of the lower rainbow, you may be able to see it “landing” in the park! I can’t recall ever seeing the ‘end’ of a rainbow 🌈  .

The approach to our stay for tonight was steep; we climbed about 500′ in less than a 1/2 mile.  But it did afford us a great view. Actually, there is a peekaboo view of the sea!

And also, some nice panaramas.

We are now working on chores for tomorrow’s hike. Tomorrow will be our last day on this journey, and the last segment before we complete the hiking transit from the West Coast of Spain, through Spain, France, Switzerland and Italy, ending in Rome!

It’ll be kind of a big deal for us. Maybe we’ll have pizza to celebrate?!

Ciao for now.