Home of the Whopper
I notice, about 3 minutes walk from the CAthedral, just at the edge of the medieval portion of the city of Santiago, there is a Burger King (one of only 2 American fast food places I´ve seen on the trek). Well, what else is there for an American to do? I stopped in, had a Big King combo menu for the very decent price of 5 Euros. It was very tasty, and the Europeans don´t even force fast food companies to print the health data of their products on the packaging, so I consumed my double cheeseburger pleasantly oblivious to the fact that i was freebasing cholesterol. It was a nice high.....So, when I come back one of these years to do the pilgrimage again, I suppose I can envision during the days of walking two moments to keep drawing me forward throughout the month-long trek----the moment of laying my hands on Santiago´s statue in the cathedral to pay my respects to the saint...and the moment of tucking into a flame-broiled whopper after a long diet of boccadillos.
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Somehow it's all startin' t' make sense.
Remember, the offer about the flight-rescheduling fee was if you stayed longer, not shorter.
one of my sharpest memories of a november trip to russia was walking my 12 year old daughter for two miles at dusk, in 0 degrees F, wind off the Volga, to the only McDonald's in the city. I would have been fine with room service. harry
For over 20 years, I've taken many opportunities to share what my favorite Jesuit once taught me, "there's no such thing as control." deb
Chris: Between your exertions and a Spanish diet that is probably rather low in cholesterol, you probably have given yourself at least a whopper's worth of credit. So eat hearty. --Lou
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