According to the maps, our route from Leon to Santiago de Compostela covered 328. 2 kilometers, or 203.5 miles (roughly the distance between Gainesville, Florida and Savannah, Georgia).
We walked on 22 consecutive days, for the relatively modest average of 9.25 miles per day. We had intended to average about 12 miles per day, as we did last year. Once the plane reservations were made, however, the days were available. We decided to fill up our time in Spain with relatively modest walks and ample free time to relax and enjoy the surroundings. We favored this approach over walking longer days and spending the extra days gained by becoming conventional tourists.
Having walked every step of the route, we were curious about how many steps we had taken. Using the stride we had used to calibrate our pedometers, we calculated that each of us had taken approximately 450,000 steps, or about 20,000 steps per day of walking.
What will we do for an encore? We don't know, but may consider another walking vacation in 2010, probably in some other part of the world.
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