Today was 15 miles and 300′ of climbing.  Overall, we’re at 22 miles and 600′ of climbing. Not a lot, yet, but the climbs are coming!

A beautiful rainy/misty day!

The first, most important, thing about today is … Diane was way  better today! No unplanned gastric events for her today!  What a gift!

The Hunter: So, we’re walking along in the back woods, enjoying the serenity when we noticed that we’re not alone! A man is walking nearby. In looking more carefully, we see that he has a rifle; a hunter!

We decided that we should probably make a bit of noise so that we’re not mistaken as pheasants! Shortly afterward, we heard the gun shots. Fortunately, not our direction!

The Hunted: about 3 miles into today’s walk we spotted several of these signs:

If you zoom into the sign, there is an English section, but the gist of it is: “Caution, wolves have been spotted in this area. Be very careful!” Well, that made for an entertaining add to our walk!

Okay, so we finally arrived at our night’s lodging. We found it online yesterday after our prior booking went out of business! Well, this place was a surprise! A combo gas station and hotel!

Can you beat that? Tomorrow, we will be staying at a hostel which is regarded as the nicest on the whole of the Via Francigena! We’ll see. It has some stiff competition from tonight’s hotel-cum-gas station!

Ciao!