Carl's Europe Tours, LLC

06/24/2024

Today 6 hr & 20 mins to travel 16.34 miles at a speed of 2.5 miles and hour. Wagon train left me behind. 36,211 steps and burned 1425 cal. At the end my pants keep slipping down. Gonna need to put a new hole in my belt. Checked in to my albergue. It will another hour before dinner is available so I'm going to rest.

06/24/2024

Only this far to go

06/24/2024

06/23/2024

Only this far

06/23/2024

Left at 8 am headed out for a 12 mile hike. It is not 11 am stopped for breakfast. Looks like a fairly new place out in the middle of nowhere. Reasonable price but toast is stale bread. Big cut of coffee makes up for it. Phone says I walked 13,000 steps already. Speaking of steps. Each evening pellegtinos gather for wine or beer and talk. The talk turns to how gar have you walked, how are your feet, how are your legs covering most of your lower extremities. When asked I say my legs are fine, my knees are fine, my whatever are fine. Comes back "wow you must have done a lot of training?" "Nope, none." Say I. I receive looks of astonishment and disbelief. "Blisters?" "Nope, none." Head shakes and how amazing I am. Not so much.

06/22/2024

Too Funny 😂😅
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06/20/2024

Today, waking back from touring the cathedral, I came upon a small crowd watching a young man doing chest compressions on an older man lying in the middle of the road. The police were just pulling up a distraught woman, maybe his wife, ran toward them. The compressions did not appear to be helping. I thought the man had had a heart attack, but after looking around some, I saw a motorcycle lying on its side not far from the man lying in the road.

All the thoughts that run through your head when you find yourself in a situation such as this. Your mind begins to create a story of what happened and even lets you see a movie of the event although none of it is true. My mind allowed me to see the man walking across the street against the red signal telling him not to. I saw the motorcycle fly around the corner, hitting the man tossing him to the ground, the rider losing control of the bike, which fell on its side. All an illusion.

After a bit, I needed to walk on to clear this made-up movie out of my head. However, I was left with the reminder of how fast one decision can make life change.

06/17/2024

Hello It's been awhile! I have traveled quite a bit by bus due to life happening. First was crummy sun screen. Than passed hot weather but not as hot as today. Then some food poisoning putting me out of commission for two days. Just life events that at home would be no be deal to handle. However when you're homeless it becomes another story. Years ago when I first began to ride.my bike in England I became lost. I was approaching two women for directions when the thought came into my head "They your going to ask them of money. Your homeless." Trying to appear as homeless as possible I approached received my directions and was gone.

06/17/2024

Fixer upper