Camino 2014: Day 15 Carrion de Los Condes to Terradillos de los Templarios (Mimi)

Camino 2014: Day 15 Carrion De Los Condes to Terradillos de los Templarios (Mimi)

Miles today: 16.3

Miles total: 248.9

We continue with the same morning schedule. We got up around 6am and troubled ourselves again in the dark, attempting to be quiet as we packed. Slowly we got down the stairs to the first floor and had breakfast. Usually breakfast consists of something on bread, for example this morning Sahra had gotten up early and made her and March a tortilla bocadillo (Spanish sandwich with a potato omelet as the filling). Our breakfast was some bread with nutella, bananas, nectarines and some other fruits.  

Before walking though, we went through a thirty seconds and less dream-telling session.  We started on our way by 6:45am. Walking has gotten so much easier! We ARE still in the Meseta, so every morning the last three days were cold! I could see my breathe.  We guessed the mid-fifties (Fahrenheit).   As we have been walking, growing accustomed to walking, and then walking even more for a majority of our daylight hours, we have done many things.  

In the Meseta I should tell you of the things we see continually. So today was a walk through fields of wheat and then fields of barley.  Occasionally we saw a beautiful display of weeds, the weeds flowers, and some sagebrush.  Then we would pass by a field of sunflowers greens with a few full sunflowers.  I can't wait to see them in full bloom.

We walked through this landscape all day. As we walk we would talk.  The three of us girls would find ourselves in song, then silence.  And another song would pop up, then silence.  These silent moments could last anywhere from a solid thirty seconds to ten minutes.  Even longer.  What do we do in the silence? We think. We think about the weirdest things, random things.

For example, some of the things I thought about were so strange.  I first thought of a very fine back story to my dream from last night.  Hint: I was a Chicago girl sent to a farm.  Back story... I was sent from a detention center for sticking gum under my parents dinner table to shovel hay.

I was also stumped for about two hours trying to figure out what state was under Illinois just to complete my back story.  It got so bad I had to ask three different American people at the hostel (besides March) if they knew what state was under Illinois.  What was funny was, no one knew without Google.

Anyways by the afternoon it was hot. Hotter than the previous days. Maybe mid-eight degrees (Fahrenheit).  We showered and cleaned our clothes and ate dinner that consisted of yogurt and sandwiches and fruit. 

Now we are all in our room sitting on our bunks laughing and joking around.  We got to see a cute video of March' and Sahra's niece in Denmark take her first steps (too cute!)  and now it is nine at night and still bright like mid-day. 

We are expecting another good day of walking tomorrow.  Hopefully our early morning will give us a head start on our new day!

 

Special thanks for the day go to:

John Overton, Julie March, and Dave and Rachel Schiffer.

Many thanks as well to our mile sponsors:

Margaret Tejeda, Marianne Fairchild, Debbie Leiken, Phillip Lendly, Tauna Nelson, Alison R. Hamilton, and Mr. Morberg.