Yesterday morning I left the alberque, a very primitive refuge available to ¨pilgrims¨ for sleeping, and low and behold it was snowing! Snowing in May in Spain. The natives were just as surprised as I was to say the least.
Thankfully, I hadn´t gotten rid of my long johns as I was told to, in hopes of getting rid of some weight in my back pack. So, out came my gloves, long johns and rain suit which I hadn´t used since the Pyrenee´s Mountains, the last time I had seen snow. Climbing the Pyrenee´s Mountains now seemed like a lifetime ago. I had actually been told that just five days before I was crossing them a man was airlifted out due to the ferocious snow storm.
Mother nature is amazing, and the lesson is that life imitates nature, not the reverse. We are not as in ¨charge¨ as we would like to believe! So much of my journey has been a reflection of nature. We really would love to believe that we are very important, but in reality we are mere puppets of a much bigger mystery.
Mother Nature
Yesterday morning I left the alberque, a very primitive refuge available to ¨pilgrims¨ for sleeping, and low and behold it was snowing! Snowing in May in Spain. The natives were just as surprised as I was to say the least.
Thankfully, I hadn´t gotten rid of my long johns as I was told to, in hopes of getting rid of some weight in my back pack. So, out came my gloves, long johns and rain suit which I hadn´t used since the Pyrenee´s Mountains, the last time I had seen snow. Climbing the Pyrenee´s Mountains now seemed like a lifetime ago. I had actually been told that just five days before I was crossing them a man was airlifted out due to the ferocious snow storm.
Mother nature is amazing, and the lesson is that life imitates nature, not the reverse. We are not as in ¨charge¨ as we would like to believe! So much of my journey has been a reflection of nature. We really would love to believe that we are very important, but in reality we are mere puppets of a much bigger mystery.