Day 4 - Grañón

So we made it to Granon.  This is were I had a great time as a kid and where my mom is from.  This is a view from the highest point in town.  Some day I will retire here at least for the summers.  Forget the winter, spring is even too cold for this desert dweller.  Here's a picture I one of it's few streets and the main camino entrance.

Granon has a pilgrims alberque.  This is where the walkers can stay.  The person that runs it is called a hospilero.  They have two here one of them is from Michigan.  Nice guy but sounds like long days.  Said they work 18 hour days.  He walked all the way to Rome.  It sounds amazing how easy it is to walk across Europe.  Guess maybe that's a motivation to stay in shape so when I retire I can walk around Europe.  Image that, walking for months with only a few outfits.  It really just doesn't seem possible but you really don't have to have so many cloths, as long as you do laundry everyday. Yah that just sounds crazy, but I guess ill see soon.

We saw this thing today in the square.  It gives a new name to mobile banking.  It has a teller and two ATMs inside.  They closed the local branch so now they provide mobile services.

We talked to a few pilgrims.  Guess they ran into some thunderstorms that involved a lot of hail.  Doesn't sound like things went very easy for them.  We also saw a bunch in mass.  They put on a half hour,  wish they would change Sunday to be so efficient,  mass each day.  The ones we saw looked very wary, some even hobbling.  But others looked fine, should take bets on what state we'll be I. When we get here.  One guy took 11 days others 9.

So how bout those sheep.  Never know what you run into walking around here.  Better watch where you step, it's fresh!