oh la la

Okay - we´re having no success at all uploading pictures from public computers, so we thought we´d post a little text update just in case anyone´s still reading this. We´re officially halfway across Spain - we´re still aiming to finish on Heather´s 30th birthday, and we´re pretty much on schedule. We might be ahead of schedule if we throw in any more 45 kilometer days - the first one didn´t kill us, though, and now we have a reputation as the Crazy Americans. There really aren´t that many other Americans doing this in general, though, and the others all seem to be older women, so we probably are crazier than many of the other Americans here. We´ve made a lot of new friends, including the older French guy trio of Roger (frequent wearer of sexy mesh shirt and mystical blister healer), Gerard and Jean, who routinely greet us with "Oh la la", stated with various degrees of enthusiasm based on their level of morale or fatigue. There are also a lot of old German guys who like to hang around in their underwear, but we´re trying not to make friends with them. We miss our old beer-drinking Swedish friend, John, and our ever-swearing Basque pal, Xavier (we were pretty sure we knew the F word in Spanish, but now we´re definitely sure), and we´re hoping our new Australian friend Rosemary catches up to us again. In the meantime, we´re learning the word for snoring in many different languages, and we´re grateful that earplugs block out the sound no matter what. We´ll post pictures soon...