The Camino – Elizabeth Arroyave-Pitts

Well lots has happened since I last updted my blog, I want to apologize for dropping off but I guess this is part of the effects of the journey.

During my evening in Foncebon (yes this is where Paulo and Shriley both had some interesting expereinces) the town consists of 6 buildings of which only 3 our inhabited. all for sleeping. I stayed at the church converted into a Albergue. We got a terrbile storm that evening, the next day just as we were to leave the storm stopped, not kidding just 5 mins till we stepped out!  Then one of the most amazing days was ahead, I would walk towards the Iron Cross, it is a place where pilgrams pray and leave behind a rock symbolizing their burden, request, gratefulness, etc to our Heavingly Father. WOW! The walk towards the cross was wonderful, The mountians were filled with purples flowers, I felt as though I was lifted in the heavens… I arrived to my destination Molinaseca and was there around noon, not to many people yest so I sat down with a bottle of wine and some glasses and awaited for others to arrive and toast the day.  It was common of pilgrams to share all or moments and things….

This evening one of the pilgrams I had met the day before, had a breakdown,  the albergue, weight of the pack, tendenitis, people, etc had gotten to her.  So walked out and was looking for a place to stay, earlier that day I had met one of the hotel owners as I had lost my charger adpator… he drove up when he saw us and mentioned that he was going home to see if he had the adpator, long of it he offered this pilgram a room at a very low cost, it turned out he had been a pilgram in the past and the camino called him to open a hotel… God is grand!