Mentos and Misdirection

Muros de Nalon to Soto de Luiña (20km) We walked about 20km today. We planned to leave around 8 because it was a short day(about 15km). We actually left at about 9:30 so of course we got lost. We got into the next big city after 4km and the trails leaving were poorly marked. All of the paths ended up at an overgrown forest so we went back and sat and had a soda to figure out our plan of action. We decided to take the highway and proceeded to walk on it. We met back up with the trail after about 2hrs unexpectedly. Turns out that after 3hrs of walking we had only made it about 6km not counting the dead end trails. We stopped at a gas station for lunch and treated ourselves to some strawberry mentos for the road. We did finally make it after a longer walk than we expected. That seems to happen whenever we leave late.