Yesterday I walked over 20 miles which included climbing a significant hill. The end of the walk, because I took the wrong road, also included miles of industrial and commercial buildings as I entered the City of Burgos. Frankly, it was a little miracle that I still had enough sense of humor to throw out the Gay Marriage video. I ran it past Tim first to make sure he didn’t mind; his only concern was that it made him look like the bad guy.
You would think that in 20 miles I would see something worth writing about or would have taken some photos or videos but it was the most mundane day we’ve had to date. We basically just walked from one little Spanish village to another and apparently I missed the sign saying “turn here” so I went a couple villages too far. By the time I discovered my mistake, the only solution was to either backtrack or to hike a goat trail to the top of a mountain, drop down the other side, bypassing most of the Camino that my fellow Trekkers were on, then just follow the highway until I got into Burgos. It was a long ass day.
On a bright note, the room I have has a big bathtub which I promptly climbed into and there was actually a restaurant open before 8pm so I had dinner but all of this was done on auto pilot because I was so tired. Tim and I Skype’ed which consisted of me staring at the screen close to catatonic. I slept 9 hours and now I need to gather up the hurricane debris that was my duffel bag so I can take it down to be shuttled to the next town.
Today we get a guided tour of the largest Cathedral in Spain (in Burgos) then we have a relatively short walk (20km) to a pickup point. We don’t actually walk all the way to any specific destination today and we rejoin the camino tomorrow via a drop-off ride. I think the spacing of decent hotels and the impossibility of d0ing two back to back 30km hikes makes the tour leaders break things up like this. Personally, I could use an entire day off but I’m not sure we get one of those during the entire 35 day trip. Ugh.
Hopefully there will be more posts soon with something to talk about; possibly photos from the Cathedral today, but right now, even after 9 hours sleep, I am still tired We have around 500km left to reach Santiago so I’m sure there are more long days ahead.
Buen Camino!
Joe Jeter, October 13, 2014
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JoeLUNA
Thanks for the descriptions Joe Jeter! I’m sure many people love the videos more, but personally I like your writing! Thanks for taking the time!
You’ve got a long camino ahead still! How will the weather change? Are you going to hit actual wintery weather?
By the absence of comments about your knees, sounds like things are doing okay on that front? Great job figuring that out!
Things are feeling more Fall-ish here in San Diego. The sun comes in at a noticeable slant, and the evening are (finally) getting cooler. Lui leaves today to visit his family in Puerto Rico for a week.
Keep writing when you can and when you feel like it. Remember this trip is for you, not for us. Make it valuable to yourself! You can tell me to go jump in a lake when you don’t want to make a blog post!
Joe Luna