Update : My friend Tom from Boulder is also joining me on this crazy walk, he was unsure but finally is committed.
We fly out tomorrow to Porto, Portugal. The dog sitter(my friend Hannah's brother) has not been eaten by dog yet so bodes well for the future. Coban actually likes him, amazing how a killer dog has morphed over a year into a nice reliable guardian.

Anyway, the plan is to land in Porto, scramble and get to the train station and hop over to Coimbra where we catch the Sud-Expresso (not the 2 shot kind ) - an overnight train to Irun on the French/Spanish border where we'll start our walk.


What better way to get over jetlag than sitting bolt upright in a 2nd class train compartment and drinking aguardiente !!!

Once we are in Irun, the plan is to start the trek to Bilbao (first stage) using this route that follows the Cantabrian Pyrenees and hugging the coastline