We are still involved in our final preparations, assembling last minute things, paying our bills in advance, making reservations at a hotel close to the Gare de Bayonne in Bayonne, checking on the schedule of the train to St. Jean Pied de Port. We plan to spend a night at Le Esprit du Chemain a small aulberge on the Rue de la Citadelle in StJPdP and on the following day we will head out to the mountain. We are not sure whether we will be taking the Napoléon route or the Valcarlos route which goes around rather than over the Pyrenees. It will all depend on the weather. We will also take one other precaution on that first 22km walk. We will arrange to reduce the weight of our backpacks by shipping some of our gear to Roncesvalles by car. Some suggest that that does not display the true spirit of the Camino, but we will live with it!We still have to find someone to cut the grass while we are gone, and by-the-way we still don't have a second waterbottle for Danielle.
