27 down, 17 more to go

The day is August 16th, the time is 6:42 am, and the temperature is a very enjoyable 16°C. The sun is about to rise over the mountains, and I can see it appearing behind the car I just parked at the same parking spot where we ended our walk back in June. It’s been a long summer so far, and not a great one when it comes to hiking. It’s been hot. Probably too much. We hit a few records here and there, hitting 40°C more than once and hiking when it’s more than 35°C and with more than 50% humidity is a miserable experience. But I wanted to go hike, I felt the need to be out there moving through nature, putting some steps in. And that’s what I did. This is going to be a strange hike since it’s part of the 44 churches loop I’m walking, but it’s not going to be a point A to point B hike, and I’m also hitting all the churches of the sixth segment of the loop plus an extra one for reasons I’m gonna explain later. But we have a long way to go, so we better get going. The first church we’re…