And finally--the sea!

About two days ago, we finally reached our destination for the past 51 days. We strolled into the little French seaside town of Banyuls Sur Mer, marched up to the Mediterranean, and stuck our feet into to it. It was cold with the goodness of triumph. It was salty with the sweat of hiking 450 miles. And it was slightly painful partially because it signified the end of our adventure honeymoon and partially because it was covered with rocks (and not that nice sand that we´re used to at Folly Beach).

We´d camped the night before on our very last pic, and it was so windy that our tent was squishing our legs all night. We finally rose around 7am and gave up on our sleeping-endeavor in order to hike the last 3 hours into the town, which we could see in the distance practically the whole way. When we got to a beautiful section of vineyards, we ate some pilfered grapes and I promptly got us lost. So we didn´t exactly follow the GR-10 into town, but we got to take a cool shortcut that took us through a soccer stadium and past some great blackberry bushes.

Then we stopped in a terrifying grocery store where we stocked up on all things French due to the fact that we planned to head straight to Spain. The store was super crowded, and a very loud alarm began to go off due to a power failure, and it continued to sound for our entire time shopping, which was a long time because we were waiting on the thunderstorm outside to stop.

THEN we marched to the beach, where we dipped our toes into the water and ate a feast complete with mimosas out of a Coca-Cola 2 liter bottle.

Thanks to you all for your support during this quest. We will try to get some photos up here asap. On to Barcelona!

The internet is ticking down here at the biblioteca of Roses, Spain, so although as this show´s co-host I should be elaborating in further detail about all the adventures we´ve endured during this last stage, I must demur. Instead, I´ll just promise a much more thorough description when we´ve got more time and the internet is in more abundance, and try to close with something pithy: Thanks for everyone´s support throughout our journey, and hike your own hike!