Into the great wide open

Today we woke up by 7:00 and enjoyed a wonderful breakfast of a variety of fruits and cereals at our hotel. The last few hours of luxury before we walked out of the city and into the great wide open planes of the Mesetta where we will be roaming for the next week. By now we have completed the body conditioning part And now we move into an expanse that is supposed to condition our minds.
As we walk past the city after 930, I did not feel that my body is completely conditioned as my feet are screaming. The rest of my body feels good, but I'm definitely dealing with some blisters on my heels that I am trying to put mind over matter.

Today as we reached the plateau in the heat, with zero shade for hours, I felt like I was walking from Savannah to Charleston on a warm June day. Barely a tree in sight , not much of a breeze, beautiful flowers and butterflies and barley and wheat and the normal rocks and dirt roads, sometimes over bridges, sometimes next to a highway, sometimes up, sometimes down, and for the most part, it was steady as she goes.

I listened to music to keep me moving and to keep my mind off of thinking about my feet. My new soundtrack for the Camino is Trevor Hall's new album. I'm thinking about the letter I'm going to write to him to let him know about this experience and the music video I have already created for him. A few days ago I bought tickets to his concert in Charleston and I'm looking forward to going there. If you haven't checked him out, check him out!

I'm definitely in a Blue Sky mind. In and through the body, walking by mountains and fields, under sun and clouds. Asking my feet to please stop screaming so I can hear the music that I would really like to hear. But I guess I don't get to control that. I have to just slow down and move on through.

We had a 20K day today and arrived in Hornillos del Camino around 4. We're only 460km from Santiago! Which means we have walked roughly 340 mi if you subtract the occasional cab ride, and add back the walks around the towns where we are staying. All that counts. But who's counting?

We have a simple private room with two little single beds, with a private shower and bathroom of our own. We are grateful to be here. We walked across the street to the one room little market, and got some Verde vino and local cheese to snack on that while our laundry was drying in the sun. We also got some bananas and olives to eat on our long walk tomorrow.

In a few minutes we will will walk down the street to the end of the village where there is a place serving dinner from 7:00 to 9:00, with some live music. Hopefully it will be out early night tonight because we are planning to get up and leave by 8:00 tomorrow to beat some of the heat as we walk another day through the Mesetta.

We will run into some of our friends we have met along the way. And then the sun will set late as usual, and we will probably be in bed later than what we think that we would like to be.Leggi altro