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Our first videos were so popular that we decided to make a few more.  Enjoy!

at long last...camino pictures!

We know these have been a long time coming - we hope a few people are still checking this from time to time. These got posted in reverse order, so view from the bottom up...videos to follow shortly!

And even higher fashion in Portugal...

High fashion in Spain

In Santiago at last...someone is taking this very seriously

Giving the emergency ponchos one last airing on the final approach to Santiago

Life support machine

Galician granary

Hiking amidst the eucalyptus in Galicia

Grungy lodgings in Melide

A very appropriately sized dinner for two in Triacastela

Kirsten with her favorite saint

Gettin' cuddly in Foncebadon

D.R. strutting his stuff outside of Astorga

HB and the Three Musketeers: Roger (aka Sexy), Gerard and The Man in the Yellow Hat

Weary pilgrims in Mansilla de las Mulas

Biggest blister ever, pre-mystical healing rite

HB and Sexy

Checking on the laundry in Najera

Hey! Beer that tastes like beer!

Filling up at the wine fountain

Baguette, the universal camino food

6:30 a.m., day #2. Not terribly encouraging.

Making good use of the emergency poncho on the way into Cirauqui

Sampling the grapes of the Rioja

  Xavier, whom we thought was mentally handicapped based on this and other similar interactions, but who actually turned out to be quite bright...

Bing bing

Well, we lost our French friends Roger and Gerard (and their new third musketeer, The Man in the Yellow Hat, brought in to replace their other friend Jean who claimed he was "united in unity" with them and ditched them the next day), but Roger had begun speaking almost entirely in sound effects, so we were starting to have some difficulty communicating with him anyway. We did get some pictures before we parted ways that we´ll post here at some point. We´re now teamed up with a super speedy Spanish man who carries a large umbrella at all times, an Australian guy who´s taken to calling himself Pepe, and a German theater dude who´s into self-discovery and insistent about dessert. We´ve only got two days left ´til Santiago, though, so this is really the final stretch - Kirsten made the excellent point that, on my birthday, I might want to wake up in an actual bed in a room not reeking of body odor sometime later than 6 a.m., and it was well taken. So, we´re going to sit in front of the cathedral in Santiago on the 8th and clap for all the other pilgrims (and maybe hand out beer - it´s just so cheap). We´re hoping not to be chased by any more German shepherds between now and then, but we now know a Spanish kung fu master whose specialty is doggy defense, so we should be in the clear. For now, it´s time to go enjoy our second-to-last egg & cheese vegetarian special dinner...more from Santiago!