A GOOD DAY WALKING DESPITE GETTING LOST

The Way of St. Francis

May 8, 2026

Monteleone to Poggio Moiano

Miles walked 8.42

I tried to keep my days on the shorter side because walking through this part of Italy is mountainous. So the walks are shorter but the effort is greater. Yesterday would have been a great day to walk, but I miscalculated and had created a 15 mile day 😮😬🤪

Nonetheless today the walk was amazing. Partly sunny and low 60’s made for a comfortable walk. Plenty of ups and downs but not so rigorous.

Cross

4 miles later I’m in Poggio Moiano. I stopped in town and had second breakfast and then headed to my hotel. The place I’m staying requires remaining on the Way of St. Francis for about 5 km and turning off at the sign for the hotel. Only…I couldn’t find my way back to the path. Apparently Signore Google doesn’t know the difference between Via Di Francesco and Via Di Francesco Parrochia.

I finally found a path…you can tell where this is going (pun intended) because if it was the correct path I would have written “the path”. Yes I invested almost two miles one way on a slippery downhill dirt path only to find this…

Yup that’s a locked gate with barbed wire around it and if you look closely there’s no path on the other side.

I had to turn around.

When I got back to town the sky was getting dark.

So I called the hotel to ask about a taxi. The young man at the desk said he’d come get me. Where was I?

In front of the police station just chillin’ like a villain 😎.

And that was my excitement for today. By the way once I realized where the path was and given that it didn’t start raining for 90 minutes I probably could have walked the 5 km necessary to get there.

Buon Cammino