Day 40o: Grace from places Higher … (05/24/2019)
I head into the outskirts of the hamlet of Saint-Genix-sur-Guiers and immediately come across Cotenvert, a delightful (relatively high-end) B&B that I had heard about from Jennifer & Juergen earlier that day … I frankly didn’t expect the owner to allow me to stay the night, and yet I stopped in anyway to ask for a glass of water before hobbling onward. And yet to my great and joyous surprise, Annie greeted me warmly, listened to the tale of Walk, and invited me inside — where she offered me a cold beer, a hot shower, and a warm place to sleep that night on her sitting room sofa! :O She also listened intently to the reasons I was walking and living as a vegan, and then proceeded to go out of her way to make extra vegan dishes for me to eat that night during the scrumptious dinner we shared with Juergen & Jennifer (who arrived about an hour after me) and Yves & Sabine (a friendly couple who have been walking various Camino routes together for years) … 😀
“For pilgrims walking every footfall is doubled; landing simultaneously on the actual path underfoot and the road of faith — a faith resting in the latent nobility of humanity and the strength of one’s own resolve as much as in the perfect Love of what can only be called the Divine.” ~ inspired by Robert Macfarlane
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