We are about to start walking the most tedious (try the new word, ´trudgerý), the Alteplano. We are in Burgos right now - a city with a gorgeous cathedral and lots of esplanades and such.
The Alteplano is high and flat. We´re talking big skies here, big vistas, a path that is straight as a dime with no variation, no trees, no shade and lots and lots of wind.
I am windburned already from the past six days. It has been a mixture of weather, sun, rain, hard rain, and cold! Today almost demanded putting on fleece gloves.
Feet are holding up though I have twinges of tendonitis in my left foot (always the left foot).
It is hard finding open churches and harder still even to find a mass. I haven´t been to church since I left last week. I spent Pentecost in the rain, and wind up on Spain´s oldest mountain range.
Nonetheless, it has been wonderful to be back on the camino, to meet people from all over, and to have the time to be still in mind and heart, and to begin to listen for God´s small still voice.
Next post from Leon for sure.
Adelante!
Route
The pilgrims walked the middle section (in red).
Pilgrimage route through fields in Aubrac, France
About Me
- Caminante
- I am a life-long Episcopalian, who has been ordained since 1993. I was rector of a family-size congregation from 1994-2008 and and ended three years as priest in partnership at a pastoral-size congregation in Vermont's fourth-largest city (Rutland) in 2011. Now I am vicar of a tiny congregation in the Green Mountains of Vermont. I am involved in church governance at the diocesan, church-wide and international Anglican levels. I was a member of a CREDO faculty team working with the clergy and lay leaders of l'Eglise Episcopale d'Haiti. I also try to go to El Salvador a few times a year and am officially Canon Missioner of the Anglican Episcopal Church of El Salvador (since 2004). In 2007, I finished the 1570 km Chemin de Saint Jacques/Camino de Santiago de Compostela. I greatly enjoy hiking in the Vermont Greens and NH Whites and reflect on those hikes. In 2010 I also completed walking the 273 mile-long Long Trail in the Green Mountains of Vermont... maybe next the Appalachian Trail? Lastly but most important, I am a cat-fanatic. (N.B. Whatever I post here does not reflect either the opinions of my congregation or of The Episcopal Church but merely those of an individual.)