Today was 14 miles, bringing us to 274 miles, overall. We have now logged enough miles to go from our home to our daughter’s home in Nevada, by foot!
Before going on to today’s hike, it’s worth spending a moment in last night’s dinner. We stayed at a B&B, which also serves dinner, farm style. The food was excellent, but the presentations were works is art. He is the salad: 
We encourage you to zoom in on the plate to see the details in the presentation. Amazing! (We ate the salad, nonetheless! ).
Today’s hike was once again through rolling farmland, using the shelter of canyon trees to make the journey less hot. 
Which leads up to today’s story, and actually the story of the last week. In certain areas as we walk along, we noticed that the trees have NO leaves, only a moss covering. We at first thought that there was flooding because the leaves start again some 15′ up, and the moss is below. In Cahors, we asked about it and got the answer to that question and more … like, why didn’t we see other hikers from Rocamadour to Vers Here goes:
Over the last few years, the Boxwood forests in France (and other European countries) have been infested by the Boxwood moth/ worm, from China. These critters are voracious and will devour a forest in just a few days. We’ve had two separate people tell us that, during the infestation, you can actually hear the munching!
To travel, these worms spin a silk line web and drop from the trees onto animals etcetera, to get around (of course, the moth version can travel up to 10 kilometers).
We were told that just 2 weeks ago, there were Billions of these worms dropping off trees between Rocamadour and Vers … that’s why there were no other hikers! They all spoke French and knew better!
We probably encountered 20 or so in our whole journey, which made them a novelty and not really a nuisance.
On today’s journey we saw an official sign warning of the infestation, but all we saw was the damage … no actual worms. 
Enough of the crawly stuff. We have laundry, showers and exploring to do!
I’m a day behind on comments! Yesterday was a full day at work after a three day holiday so seems everybody’s getting back into the swing of wanting to take care of what is necessary in their lives and looking to improving them. Good for me. And good for them. I’m seeing some very interesting clients lately, and lots and lots of anxiety. I think you have the right idea to just take a walk in the country and just keep on going for five or 600 miles. Thanks for the pictures of the food, it’s amazing with presentation can do to make things look so yummy. Even if I didn’t like the food, I would’ve eaten it because it looks so beautiful. And the worms… Yuck! As long as they weren’t in your pack or on your head. You know, so much happens all around the world to our environment and the people in it that we’re not just not aware of. Thanks for sharing some of the day-to-day life that goes on in the countryside of France. I hope the two of you are faring well and that the aches and pains are just that, aches and pains. I look forward to your next set of pictures. You are going to have an amazing story to look back on and remember. I love you both
Thanks for keeping up with the posts. We really do like hearing from family and friends back home. And we’re also just trying to enjoy each and every part of this journey for its own uniqueness; it’s not about knocking off “x” miles to get us closer to the finish line. We’re really glad your business is doing well. That just provides extra “cafe con leche” money for your Camino!