Day 9- Santo Domingo to Belorado

Today was another rather short one at 14 from Santo Domingo to Belorado. We started at 730am and walked a 6 Kms to the next town and had a delicious breakfast at a food truck at the entrance of the town. BTW most towns have a breakfast place right. At the entrance to the town and just about all pilgrims will stop there. Pretty much a gold mine. Usually the second place in town has no one… you kind of feel sorry for them!
The weather was great for walking this morning at 59 degrees and overcast. Got a good sunrise despite the cloud cover.
We have left the La Rioja region and are now in Castillo de Lyon/ Burgos
Most is the scenery was grain fields with sunflowers patches intermingled. Grain has been cut already and the sunflowers are dead so ….outside of the rolling hills pretty bland. About halfway thru we ended up on a path next to a highway so that didn’t increase the ambiance!
What I have been confounded with is property lines. I see none throughout the fields and the natural landscape doesn’t seem to work either . Must be a way cause it can’t be owned by 1 person:)
We met several folks along the way, New Zealand, Hong Kong and , Brazil were the new countries . It is amazing how many countries are represented.
We are staying in a really nice albergue that actually has a pool!
There were many signs along the way today. My favorites sign was “Walk with pain, find your mind”, That kept my mind busy for most of the trip today.
It is amazing how you can focus on an issue while you walk . In addition it is clear that doing a walk like this you will always have some pain somewhere but you adjust , accommodate and move on. In life that holds true as well. your mind is a powerful thing that can propel you to deal with most anything that arises…..
2 more days of relatively short segments will land us in Burgos and then the messers is not far away where we will be turning on the afterburners and knock up some high mileage days!
Injury update: brown knee holding steady some pain but manageable, CJ having some shin issues and hoping that a few more short days will help!Läs mer