Monday, May 27, 2024

We are awake later today than usual. Today will be a shorter day of walking. Upon entering the town where we will stay this evening we pause in the centre square for coffee and some sun on a patio. We walk to the albergue, set up our bunks, and then continue to a grocery store where the evening’s provisions are acquired. This evening will be spent with some writing, image selection, and transcriptions from the notebook. Lately, I’ve been falling behind on the evening’s creative production. I want to maintain a consistent creative practice every day along this walk. I don’t want these forms of making stuff to seem like chores or responsibilities. I want to do them, and I love to do them. This is the reason I chose to bring these tools with me. I know, that later on, I will be thankful for spending two hours each night devoted to this project. I prepare for sleep around 10:00 pm. As luck would have it, a sleeper of prodigious and traumatically loud snoring is destroying the bunk below me. Sounds of horrific terror resonate through the metal bedframe to violently rattle my weary bones. A few hours of sleep are gotten.

Today’s distance walked: 36 km    |    Total distance walked: 714.63 km

“A journey is a journey together, the world is filled with kindness.” — Wisdom written by Kyosuke in my notebook.