Getting pretty hot and dry and thirsty, but the trail never disappoints… well no, I digress for a moment… once in awhile we’d come upon a water...
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Tag Archives: blue skies
Further on Up the Road
We’d already experienced longer hiking days than this, so perhaps this one seemed so much longer due to the hot sun and dry, calm air. We were...
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Cracked, Worn and Overgrown
Scenes in a small village....
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Various Watering Holes in Lorca, Spain
a bar… the Rio Salado… inside the Church of San Salvador… the water fountain… an albergue serving both food and drink… and last, but not least, perhaps...
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Cirrus Wisps
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Toca Para Buenas Vibraciones
Heading to Lorca, Spain from Cirauqui, we passed several farms (actually saw a farmer checking over his crop), and further down the dirt “Roman Road” of this...
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Thinner
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Trekking Through Muruzábal and Obanos, Spain
A warm and gorgeous afternoon as we made our way through the small, but ever-colorful Spanish villages of Muruzábal, then Obanos. Both appeared to be more modern...
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No Shelter From the Storm
“Storms make trees take deeper roots” – Dolly Parton...
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Overwhelmed #1
“But only God can make a tree” – Joyce Kilmer ...
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Spanish Countryside
“In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks” – John Muir...
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Residence in Oil
Uterga, Spain. Residence with church steeple in the background....
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Ascent to Alto del Perdon…
… aka “Peak of Forgiveness”. It was a fairly steady incline to the top. Since leaving Pamplona, we had our eyes on the wind turbines miles in...
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Mid Morning Calm
Not a soul in sight… From Burguete into to Espinal – fields of wildflowers, scarlet tiles on every roof, Iglesia de San Bartolome (Church of St Bartholomew),...
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Burguete to Espinal
Breakfast at some stone picnic tables, a cat standing post, minimalist living quarters for tiny living being(s?), interrupting the cows in the barn, fellow pilgrims, and onward…...
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