Today was neither a good nor a bad day. When I woke up this morning I wasn´t really in the mood for walking. I knew I only had a short 12km ahead of me, but I didn´t feel up to it. But, I dragged myself out of bed, gathered my belongings, and after a quick breakfast of bruised cherries I was out the door by 7:45. Now I wasn´t physically tired, I was more mentally tired, I just felt very homesick today. As I was walking it started to bug me that while I am walking the camino, I have no sense of home. I get up every morning and walk to an entirely new city, sleep in a different (and sometime sketchy looking) bed each night, and I am living out of a small backback. I´m not able to spread my things out and have my own person space; everything I own is crammed into this bag. I´m a hobo. And it doesn´t help that over the past few days there has been no beautiful landscapes. I walk along the highway and stare at vast green fields and noisy trucks for eight hours a day. And it makes me feel sad because I see all these people walking with their families and friends, and I am alone. I have no one to confide in, and just the occasional person who speaks little English to talk to every once in a while. And because I have a longer schedule than most people, I usually don´t see any familiar faces at the end of the day. Even so, my four hours of walking today felt like it took forever. By the time I arrived in Villafranca (which isn´t a nice city...the highway passes right through and it is basically a truck stop) I was emotionally drained. There was no cafe to sit in, so I found a less antsy part of the grass to curl up on and I fell asleep for two hours. Afterwards I felt much better. I pretended to have a room in the hotel up the street from my albergue, and so I sat in the nice hotel loby for a few hours and read my novel. For dinner, I met up with this German couple I have seen periodically throughout the past few days. We had a lovely dinner and talked about anything during the course of the meal. They are really a friendly bunch of people, although I have forgotten their names and I think it would be rude to ask them at this point again. So I just have to make sure I talk to them each directly.
Anyways, in two days I will arrive in Burgos. I am going to book a private room in a nice hotel and just relax and congratulate myself on having finished 1/3 of the Camino de Santiago!! This is also where I will be taking another rest day, so on Suday I can spend all day if I want in the hotel and then explore the city on Monday. Yay! I can´t wait. Bye for now.
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