{"id":1487,"date":"2013-04-16T07:54:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T14:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2013-04-16T08:42:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T15:42:32","slug":"the-meseta-begins-to-leave-its-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/the-meseta-begins-to-leave-its-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meseta Begins to Leave its Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">1<\/span>5 April 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"drop\">Today Eamon and I walked a record-breaking 34 km. <\/p>\n<p>The walk to Fromista along the <em>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<p>Lunch was in Fromista, where I spent some time in the Romanesque masterpiece of the Iglesia de San Martin.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>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 &#8211; heel holes in both right socks.<\/p>\n<p>Also had my first blisters, both on my right foot.<\/p>\n<p>Both feet are swollen and bruised. I was, however, able to purchase new hiking socks in Carrion de los Condes.<\/p>\n<p>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<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130416-173845.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130416-173845.jpg\" alt=\"20130416-173845.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130416-173936.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130416-173936.jpg\" alt=\"20130416-173936.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130416-174008.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130416-174008.jpg\" alt=\"20130416-174008.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130416-174055.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130416-174055.jpg\" alt=\"20130416-174055.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130416-174126.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130416-174126.jpg\" alt=\"20130416-174126.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130416-174139.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130416-174139.jpg\" alt=\"20130416-174139.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130416-174204.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130416-174204.jpg\" alt=\"20130416-174204.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 April 2013 Today Eamon and I walked a record-breaking 34 km. The walk to Fromista along the Canal de Castilla was very pleasant; it was not yet hot (we left at 7:30), and a cool breeze blew through the trees beside the canal. Lunch was in Fromista, where I spent some time in the Romanesque masterpiece of the Iglesia [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gear","category-pilgrim-reports","category-thom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1497,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}