Dipping my toe into the Meseta

I’ve heard people say that the Camino Frances takes you on a three part journey: the physical journey, the spiritual journey, and the mental/emotional journey. The Meseta is the spiritual part.

I can see why the first part is physical. After about two weeks my body has been through a lot. I’m constantly attending to foot issues (too detailed to go into here). Sore joints and muscles. Parts of my body rubbed a bit raw from overuse. I feel I know how to attend to the physical now. However it takes consistent attention. I have a daily walking routine that works and is flexible. When to eat, when to sunscreen, when to 🚽. 😊

God was good to me today as I entered the Meseta. The day was a breezy high of 77 and I was done before the hottest part of the day. The first half of the day had me emerging out of Burgos and past two villages. So only half a walking day today was in the Meseta. I’ll try to post a few pics each day to show the texture, contours, and likely monotony of it all.

The village I stopped in today has a population of 60 people! I’m not sure I’ve ever stayed in a place so small. In fact, I’m not (Ha!). It’s so small the company set me up in a “hotel” in the next town over. The owner was as rude as could be imagined. I guess when there’s not a lot of competition you can treat people however you like. I’ll choose to see his behavior as giving me an opportunity for “virtuous action”, as a colleague of mine jokingly states (there are a lot of opportunities for virtuous action in the church 😆).

I’m hoping to get out of here pretty early tomorrow (depending on the will of the owner when he chooses to drive me back to the Camino) to move on to the next town where I may not need to will myself to exercise such virtuous action as much! But first I’ll watch Spain play in the Semi-Finals of Euro Cup Soccer tonight.Baca lagi