By the time I walk back to my room from the Las Vegas bar (from where I blog) today will be my longest on the trip in terms of steps. I ran into Sylvia the Italian 'social nucleus' and walked with her for the first 20km until the town of Alcuescar. We stopped for lunch there and ran into most of the characters from the bar in Aljucen yesterday. They all stayed in Aljucen and I continued on another 16km to Aldea del Cano - home of the Las Vegas bar. The first 20km was a gradual rise of about 1000 feet. The rest of it was a gradual decline but it poured with rain right after lunch and my boots were waterlogged. Most of the day was on a pleasant dirt track in a national (or maybe regional?) park so that was nice.
The Casa Rural I'm staying at doesn't seem to have wifi, otherwise I'd post more pictures of cows and olive trees.
Since I felt pretty good today I'm expecting to feel like crap tomorrow. I think it's 22km to a fairly significant town called Caceres. It's supposed to be an interesting place so I'm not opposed to spending an extra day there if I find a good place to stay.
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