The walking is going great - all the kinks seem to be worked out and I am feeling great. Loving it. The weather has been incredible since the end of the first morning and it may be changing now. It poured last night so there was a pretty slow section walking with red mud clinging to the boots and shoes. So stopped after about 20k and found a nice albergue - the name for the refugios. It has rained somewhat this pm so hopefully it will rain again tonight and we´ll see what tomorrow brings. We are at the beginning of the maseta - the saskatchewan of spain. So I am looking forward to that - see how I like it. So far I love the openess but then it is not totally flat yet.
Burgos is quite small and has an incredible cathedral so a few of us enjoyed that. I love walking through the villages and out in the countryside - perfect for me.
The people that we saw at the beginning seem to change daily - sometimes you see familiar faces every few days. After a while there are new and some that you recognize.
Enjoyed chatting with a rather spiritual Portugese young fellow the other day whose aunt paid for his train ticket so that he could have a ´spiritual experience´´and whose family doesnt understand him. He feels that too many people are here as tourist and not pilgrims.
Last night I chatted with an American that is doing the camino in reverse (due to logistics) and he at 25 told me his story of giving up alcohol and then marijuana and drugs - all very interesting - recognizing, changing, and looking back at his lifestyle and how he no longer fits in with his friends at home.
Chatted with a Canadian interested in bird and photography today. And then I seem to have dinner most evenings with my kiwi friend and the minister from Didcott, UK. All very interesting.
Interesting seeing relationships and how people work things out. The Australian couple that I saw last week. He was so competitve and driving and she was trying to please but really couldn´´t keep up. He was so competitve that he raced past some German guys to prove a point (I don´t know what point). Then the Dutch couple who discuss and agree if one is tired then they stop. The young Canadian couple - he injured and she happy to wait out a couple of days for recovery. Groups of 3 are interesting - often 3 women or a couple and a woman. Sometimes there is resentment because one holds up the other and they don´t speak openly about their issues. So sometimes I might be hearing some stuff. Interesting how people link up, separate, get together, enjoy each other or not. Everything on the continuum exists.
I get to do it my way - and what a wonderful opportunity to discover what that might be. Anyways off on the maseta for the next week.
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