{"id":59554,"date":"2013-04-16T07:54:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T14:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/the-meseta-begins-to-leave-its-mark\/"},"modified":"2013-04-28T18:41:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T01:41:54","slug":"the-meseta-begins-to-leave-its-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/the-meseta-begins-to-leave-its-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meseta Begins to Leave its Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"

15 April 2013<\/p>\n

Today Eamon and I walked a record-breaking 34 km. <\/p>\n

The walk to Fromista along the Canal de Castilla<\/em> was very pleasant; it was not yet hot (we left at 7:30), and a cool breeze blew through the trees beside the canal.<\/p>\n

Lunch was in Fromista, where I spent some time in the Romanesque masterpiece of the Iglesia de San Martin.<\/p>\n

From there, a straight-shot walk next to the highway that continued to the horizon, which brought home the reality of the Meseta.<\/p>\n

This pattern would be repeated during the day, as we later walked for a while beside a small river, lined with trees, only to be followed by a razor-straight road going to the horizon like some sort of illustration of the vanishing point, with nothing but oceans of grass to either side.<\/p>\n

Eamon typically pulls ahead of me on these long straighaways, and we are each enveloped by the Meseta, left alone to struggle with our own thoughts and our own demons.<\/p>\n

The big news today was the failure of my footware. The heels in my shoes are rapidly deteriorating, and as a result, I\u00b4ve pounded both pairs of hiking socks to dust – heel holes in both right socks.<\/p>\n

Also had my first blisters, both on my right foot.<\/p>\n

Both feet are swollen and bruised. I was, however, able to purchase new hiking socks in Carrion de los Condes.<\/p>\n

Today in Poblacion de Campos, I saw a lamp post I had seen in a dream in Carcosa and sketched perhaps twenty years ago.<\/p>\n

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Lunch was in Fromista, where I spent some time in the Romanesque masterpiece of the Iglesia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camino"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-fuy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":83937,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/one-year-ago-the-longest-walk\/","url_meta":{"origin":59554,"position":0},"title":"One Year Ago: the Longest Walk","author":"Thom","date":"15 April 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"(from my journal) Carri\u00f3n de los Condes 15 April A record-breaking 34km day. 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