Much better day!

So, today was day 5 of walking and u feel like I’m getting some things sorted out. For one thing, I maybe don’t want to be off stage so much. The last couple of days it led to very solitary walks, and while I enjoyed them - while I enjoyed today’s walk, I do want to connect with some folks at least sometimes. So I pushed a little today, walked 27-28 km and caught up with my group. Or a lot of them anyway as we all seemed to congregate at the municipal here in Estella.

I recognized it as soon as I walked in, and when I opened up my WiFi to connect, I didn’t need to enter the password. It remembered me! Aww! It’s the little things :-)

So yes, I did stride right past a very well marked turn, almost first thing this morning, but it was a 20 minute delay, tops, and it yielded the photo of the big rapeseed field under that sky. I just wish that photo could capture the depth of silence I encountered there. So beautiful.

Then from the sublime to the best donut I have ever eaten, and I mean ever. The coffee was also amazing.

The bridge today makes those medieval ones look like youngsters -it’s Roman! And the picture of the rocky path I am pretty sure is remains of the Roman road.

Final update: despite here being almost no one around to see it, I put my sign out this afternoon! No chatting happened. We’ll see what tomorrow brings.

Went to Mass tonight, received a blessing along with two other pilgrims I attended with, which was nice. It was a good day!Read more