The pilgrim's diet

Can we talk about my favorite subject? Food! Our typical day starts out with a desperate search for breakfast that eventually finds us on the Way taking inventory of our chocolate supplies.

Eventually we stumble across a place that is open, usually in the next town. Today it was at a truck stop. We were desperate for a coffee. The proprietor helped us with the automated machine. We picked out our desired coffee puck and mashed the button. He heated the milk in the microwave and then poured the hot milk in a swirling motion into our small service station cups that said I used to be a barista in Madrid! Usually we find a more proper cafe/bar and order tortilla and café con leches.

Tortilla is like an egg fritada but can have many other ingredients. Often it contains potatoes and sometimes chorizo. Then we plod along until morale sags and we stop for a Coke and a smile, or some olives and bocadillos. Bocadillos are Spanish sandwiches that are usually way off on meat to bread ratio. The loaf is the size of my thigh and you can read the newspaper through the meat. Today I struck gold with a chorizo bocadillo that didn't spare the meat!

There are no other toppings other than occasionally olive oil. They are awesome fuel. Then we reboot and march on. Chocolate often provides the fuel to finish the stage. We rehydrate with a beer and blog.

Next meat is acquired often with eggs and potatoes in some form or other.

Then comes the flan or pudding and voila, the pilgrim retires to their top bunk with a satisfaction that only comes from complete exhaustion. Buen provecho!