Fri. 10-27-23 Sant’Agata to Corleone

 Well folks, this may be rushed and abridged, because I had a big day.  I’ll try to get it all in.

The dinner Filipo made at Sant’Agata was amazing. Appetizers, an amazing pasta dish and what I rarely eat- a steak. But I simply needed the calories.  Thank you so much Filipo.  




He asked me when I wanted Breakfast, and I said 7:00.  I was on the trail by 7:40 AM leaving my sweet digs for an actual first dirt trail that went on for miles through rough plowed fields. 







Well I may get the sequence wrong, but after miles of this early morning bliss, I reached a paved road an walked through a massive solar farm.  







Along the way there were old farm ruins, lots of cows with ding-dongy bells you can hear from afar, vineyards and porcupine spines. Choice! 

I kept mostly walking on easy grades but there was one big rock coming at me. 


Further on I encountered a guy tending sheep with a bunch of big white sheep dogs. I hailed him at 50 meters away, just as the dogs noticed me.  Me scared? Well yes, because there were like 8 big dogs.  But he called them off and I passed.  



Soon after I reached a main highway, and I crossed where I shouldn’t have but got across safe cutting off some distance on the trail.  After a sandwich and rest I realized I did have to go over the shoulder of this big rock I’ve been seeing for miles.






On the other side of the big rock , I had to go way down and back up as you can see in the last picture.  I was running on fumes. And then I realized, this IS what it is all about. Even though you doubt yourself, you can do it. Yeah I was tired, but I wasn’t cramping or feeling bad just tired.  So I pushed on through another 90 minutes to Corleone which seemed like forever.  



After a nap I went to look for food for the trail tomorrow.  I walked for 40 more minutes and went to two major chain stores, both were closed.  I was in the depths of frustration at this point, so I went to a cafe, had Negroni and asked the guy where the nearest food store that was open. It was down the block 20 meters away. 

Scored bread, sliced salami, mayo, and candy bars which will get me  20 KM farther to Prizzi tomorrow.  

The section after Prizzi is too long for me. I am attempting to arrange a transfer to the next town on Sunday.  More at 11:00 as they said.

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