Day 090i: A far less common Way … (July 13, 2019)
This particular stretch of the Camino – from the city of Carion de los Condes to the village of Calzadilla de la Cueza – was supposedly the longest unbroken stretch along the entire Camino; 17km (over 10 miles) of mostly straight, hot, and dusty path without any town or village or waystation present to provide respite for the weary. Personally, the days’ overcast skies and the way’s broad flat trail made for some of the most pleasurable walking of my entire pilgrimage, though I will admit that this opinion was obviously the minority view among the day’s many trudging amblers …
“Life’s more common roads are paved wide and always skirt mountains. And these easier routes are always choked with a steady stream of pedantic & more morose travelers; those who in reality have no real desire to travel at all. If we are to discover life’s greater depths, we must walk as real travelers, those who tread on life’s more tiring or precarious paths – the ones that defy smoother lines &/or scale more jagged peaks.” ~ via Craig D. Lounsbrough
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