Tarjados to Hontanas

We started our morning with hugs from the hospitaleros.  They were the most incredibly nice hosts we have had at an albergue yet.  We were so happily greeted, rested and goodbyed with breakfast from their donativo albergue in Tarjados.

We started our day with about 14c temperature.  We walked a few hills and then the start to the meseta.  A very flat treeless section of the camino that stretches about 7 days starting now.  We see mostly whhhhheat these days and lots of wind turbines.  Dad would LOVE it!!!  The wheat is always dancing to different songs along the way.  It is beautiful.

We walked today about 20km to Hornados.  This town is mostly made up of business from pelegrinos since there are a total of 3 alberguesa hostel and a hotel all within a very small area.  In a small town, business is limited to about 2 shops for groceries, so they can sort of charge what they wish.  We can pay a cheap 2£ for lunch of a tortilla sandwich to share between Carson and I.  We can also pay 2€ for a dinner of pasta, bread, potato salad and wine that we prepare in a group at the albergue together.  Francesca, our Italian friend did some nice cooking for our group again.  There were 10 of us this time.  Very nice!!!  We much prefer making food together instead of buying the restaurant pilgrims menu for 9€.   We have found lots of bread, ham, cheese, eggs and fruits. My favorites are the oranges and the pears and Carsons are mangos and nectarines.

Today we tried to celebrate the best we could our American Independence Day.  If we were back home, right now dozens of fireworks would be going off as we speak.  Instead, in Spain we have another day on the camino.  Some friends spent last night partying in Burgos, but we are saving our adventures for the end of the trip in Santiago for Feast Day.  We did, however happen on a 2£ swimming pool today.  We ran into Tristan our friend who is running the Camino and he was excited by the idea of a pool.  We then decided to join and hang by the water.  It felt amazing on our feet.

One of my favorites about walking the Ca.mino is the friends we meet and re-meet along the way.  Today we bumped into Ana, Christina, Jonathon, Francesca, Sergey, and Brian.  James,  Carson and I are all making good progress towards our trek together.

Tomorrow is a new fresh day.  Looking forward to our 5:30am wake up to beat some of the intense heat of the meseta.  Today ended at 26c.  HoT!!!!!!!!