Logrono to Ventosa

Today we definitely wanted a short day and agreed to just walk to Ventosa.

We set off and hadn´t gone far before Leonie burst into tears having discovered she had lost her camera and then launched into me because she hadn´t eaten the previous night. That lifted the lid on a pile of stuff.

She was angry about the water incident from 5days ago and said the feeling was bad between us. I honestly was not feeling badly towards Leonie. (What I didn´t say in the earlier post was that Leonie had 2 fresh bottles of water and, knowing that I had none, had not shared hers. I felt hurt and angry and later that evening told her so. She was unapologetic and angry that I was angry. There really didn´t seem anything to be gained by a futile conversation and I said I wasn´t willing to discuss it anymore. I was over it. She said she would drop it too. But obviously by the resentment that blew up in my face 5 days later and her saying the feeling had been bad, she had been feeling bad towards me all that time)



We each have our version of events. The upshot of it is Leonie decided as we left Logrono that she wanted to walk by herself, at least for today and maybe for the Camino.  That was more than fine by me.

My mind was quite pre-occupied by Leonie all day and I had decided by the end that even if she hadn´t made a decision, my decision was that I would prefer to walk alone. It is the trip of a lifetime, something I have wanted to do for ten years. I don´t need to be trying to second guess Leonie.

When I got to the refugio there was no sign of Leonie, yet she was definitely ahead of me as we left Navarette (a town just prior to it along the way).

I have not seen Loenie since. This is the first day since, (writing this 3nights later) that I have had access to internet and there is no comunication from her.