After a 10-day intensive trudge forward, scaling over countless mountains and rolling hills, wandering through endless broad and beautiful green and flowery fields, rain or shine, step by step we walked nearly 300 kilometers or 190 miles and arrived in ancient city Burgos today!

The official guideline divided this distance from St Jean to Burgos into 13 days of walking.  That averages to about 22 kilometers a day.  We have been pushing ourselves hard each day and always taking that additional 10 kilometers or a bit less.  Many days we ended up as the only pilgrims on the trail, most of them are done by early afternoon.  With scorching sun and high temperature, every mile seemed to be like ten miles long especially toward the end each day.  We literally were dragging our hurting feet forward like a snail. We had gotten lost a few times and ended up somehow alongside of the highway with cars flying by.

I’m happy to learn that I am more fortitudinous than I thought. I start to believe that, actually, I am a pilgrim who’d endure the hardship and journey long distance to a sacred place. The sacred place in a way is in my own heart.