Miles Hiked Overall: 204.0 (328,3 km) Miles to Santiago: 281.0 (452,2 km)
Steps Taken Today: 37,978
Blister Count: K's are healing but where the bandage goes around her big toe, now a new blister has formed...Pam now has 4 blisters. We both have these issues only on our left feet!
Spanish Word of the Day: trigo (wheat)
What We Learned Today: Sometimes walking up a steep rocky side trail in the hopes of getting a better view isn't worth it.
Today was another day spent hiking through the meseta, the open high plains. There are some ups and downs, but mostly it is fairly consistent elevation, 800-900 m (2600-3000 ft) .
May is a good month to be doing this Camino because the meseta is still green. The fields are beautiful. It's amazing how many different shades of green there are!
The fields are full of big rocks and here they pile them up on the edge of the fields or make awesome stone fences with them.
We have seen many wind turbines on our travels.
If you look closely at this church you will see that there is a big nest on one corner. (There was actually a nest on each corner.) These are stork nests. It is so cool to see them flying around.
Speaking of birds, out in the meseta there are very few sounds. We haven't walked by roads much and between villages (usually 10K apart) there is nothing but fields. The one sound you do hear, constantly, is of many small chirping, singing birds. It's a lively and lovely sound. It's hard to spot them and so far I've only gotten one photo. At the beginning of the Camino, we saw many big birds (we sometimes laughed that they were swarming vultures) that were something like falcons or other birds of prey. These big birds were fascinating to watch in the big gusts of wind.
We ended our day in the village of Castrojeriz. This cute village has ruins of a castle from the 9th century.
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
―Henry Stanley Haskins
