Mysterios Mesetas

Walking the Camino Meseta

Carrion de los Condes to Leon( many days of walking)

"It 's a dangerous business going out your front door-you never know where you'll end up ", said Bilbo Baggins to Frodo. 

The second Road on the 500 mile Camino is known as the Road of Meditation.

Burgos to Hontanas

 We have passed through the more than two weeks of traveling the  Road of Pain and Suffering and I am assuming that means that there will be no further pain and suffering on the Meseta but perhaps the pain and suffering from the last two weeks may linger?
Already on the first day of walking the Meseta I am aware of the quiet, the hot sun, the huge horizon and flatness of space and for the first time, my aloneness, although Jim is walking ahead and pilgrim bicyclists roll on by and an occasional walking pilgrim passes me.

This is the Meseta Central ( inner Plateau) plains of Central Spain and I am walking them.  I know that many pilgrims simply skip this part of the Camino and  I am amazed that one would chose to miss this quiet beauty but soon understand the path of meditation and the play of it on the mind.
 This is the part of the walk when I cry at the loss of my father and my youth as a toll is taken on my body.  I cry for the pilgrims killed upon their Camino: from the Canadian who died so close to Roncesvalles after a major storm exploded from his start in St. Jean the day we arrived to the German bicyclist on the Meseta from many years ago who fell and hit his head to his death.
The Meseta seems to bring it all up for me and allows
me the space to grieve.
 My heart is open and I connect to this world like never before.