I found this photo online of Tardajos, the city where I stopped this evening. The major difference: I walked the majority of the afternoon through a driving rainstorm and stumbled into this somewhat forbidding town at dusk. Due to my late arrival, I was the last to enter the donativo hostel there, and all the hot water had already been used up by the pilgrims who arrived earlier.  It was to be the only time I showered cold the entire Camino!

“We have not even to risk the journey alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us … And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a God; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.” ~ Joseph Campbell

Filed under: Walking The Way (Camino de Santiago - 2008) by Scaughdt