Today was another one of those days that shatter previous limits as far patience and endurance are concerned. Not only did we walk well over 20 miles (much father than Mom had ever walked in one day), but three times did we enter a town that began with the same name as our hostel’s village, only to realize (over & over again) that we would have to keep walking. Sheesh!  And yet, persistence always lends its destination, and after a verrrrrry long Walk, one that ended in a thunderstorm that hailed on us (!!!), we finally arrived at our hostel in Olveira at dusk.

“Faith is the gentle middle way, the ‘narrow path’ so easy to stray from and yet always near at foot. It is neither nebulous dogma on the right, nor is it the concrete reasoning of the left. No, true Faith is always humbly aware of its own uncertainty, even while it strides boldly towards life’s next wondrous explanation.” ~ anonymous

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