on the way...of St. James (2nd stage)

Dear reader, dear co-pilgrim, I’m glad that you join me on this 2nd stage of my journey on St. Jame's Way. The 1st stage took us from the French Pyrenees to the border of Spain's Rioja.
Today, we’ll continue our hike on the Camino de Santiago and there is still one certain question:

What exactly am I doing here?!?

The first around 200 km were characterized by monotonous changes between vast landscapes and small towns. This constant 30 kilometers movement heading westwards, day by day, helps to calm the thoughts, step by step. In the evening, while the pilgrim’s-meal with changing companions, there is a good time to look back and reappraise the insights of the day.

Daily to-do list:

1. Get up
2. Hike
3. Shower
4. Dinner
5. Sleep

Life at 6 kilometers per hour calms down.

Day after day on the way to goal. One step after the other. Through smaller towns…

…through larger villages.

Sometimes lonely...

...sometimes urban...

...but always on the way…

...westwards...towards Santiago de Compostela…to the final destination of this voyage.

The daily routine and motion turns, day by day and step by step, into a calming rhythm that occupies the place which is usually reserved for all those important, daily distractions in normal life. Distractions, which in most cases distract you from one thing for sure: from personal goals.

This ends the second stage of this journey. Next time, we are going to reach the “Cruz de Ferro”, the famous iron cross. At this place, the pilgrim can lay down a personal item which stands for the emotional ballast, which one bore to this place.

Feel invited to join me again…on my way