Day 32: Herbon to Milladoiro

Herbon to Milladoiro

Distance: 10 miles / 16 km

Total: 340 miles

Notable memories

The hike

The hike was memorable mainly because it was the last day of a full schedule. 

It was about 10 miles long, and although the sky was grey and cloudy, it did not rain which was a blessing. 

Amazingly I seem to have picked up a stress fracture on the very last day. Otherwise I cannot account for what's going on with my left leg. 

Stuff happens.

Tomorrow will be the end of the most amazing journey that I have ever taken.

 Last day was cloudy and damp but at least there was no rain

Less than 10 miles to Santiago

A soliloquy

  I was musing on topics for a soliloquy and it seems to me that Shakespeare's most powerful soliloquies whether for love or hate, explore the rawest, basest, deepest depths of emotion.

With that, I wrote the following soliloquy.


A short time I was vassal to your lordship.
I grieve a woman not for your highness - mine - taken.
Grieve the wrongness of your pleasures purposelessness.
Bring forth your scurrilous, salamander newts;
They die as quickly as you won't.
The hell in my tormented soul fires me;
Sends you to Perdition's coals.
Draw rapier for honor to prick your heart;
Stroke the shave of sword to your guileful mask
To feast there for sustaining redness.
For each cut on your corpse marks your sin.
No quickness, no quarter, no peace, no mercy.
Today you pass from here more slowly than her.
Burn as slowly as quickly as you took her
Pray demons of Dante's Inferno ever leave nothing of you.
Pray the Serpents of Hades consume you eternally.
Pray today you die to live in Hell.