Rain or shine

Today Rory and I walked the Wharf to Wharf route round trip. (Santa Cruz wharf to the Capitola wharf, that is.). A total of 12.3 miles, one of our longest days so far! We started at 8:45 AM and ended at 2:30 PM, which included lots of stops for rest, food, gear/clothing adjustments, etc. We encountered both cold/driving rain, and sunshine. Rory tested the rubber dishwashing gloves hack as a way to keep our hands warm and dry when it rains. (It worked!) I didn’t bring my gloves, so I did a MacGyer move by donning my spare pair of wool socks on my frozen hands to keep them warm (which also worked)! And we saw the last remnants of a snowman from last week’s freak snowstorm in Santa Cruz! We truly felt like today was a representative day of what it will be like when we are on the Camino.