Day 9: Logroño Rest Day

Super happy with my choice to take a rest day- the Camino has showed me no mercy!

I was not feeling great when I woke up- achilles still swollen, slight headache, a sore throat. But I was delighted to have space and time to myself to do all the things:

• lounge in bed
• elevate the leg
• advil
• listen to a meditation
• drink mint tea
• chill
• check out of our airbnb
• get coffee and chat with Iris
• check into new airbnb room for the afternoon/night
• blog
• ice foot
• make this Casey Camino spotify playlist with all the songs I’ve enjoyed walking to… listen with me, if you’d like!
• yin yoga
• a BATH (It was lukewarm, but still…)
• kebab for dinner
• more ice
• reading The Pilgrimage…. This is the first opportunity I’ve had to READ, and I just happened to leave off on the chapter when he arrives to Logroño!
• journaling
• eating these berry candies Emily got me hooked on
• relaxing

This is the first day/night I’ve been completely by myself, and it’s been really relaxing and much needed. I was able to come back to some practices that ground me- like meditation, yoga & reading- which have been hard to do on the Camino thus far!

I hope this is the last day that you have to read about my dang achilles… here’s hoping!