"As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life." - Siddhartha Gautama
I am writing from L’Hospitalet in Gd. St. Bernard! Below you can see the path I took from Bourg St. Pierre.
You know it’s going to be a good day when the second word you pause to translate into English after “col du montagne” (mountain pass) is “synchronicité” (synchronicity).
But how do you divide a day? Hours? (6) Kilometers? (12) Elevation gained? (1100m) The passsing of the tree line? The passing of a lake? Towns ticked off the tail markers? Breakfast, lunch and dinner?
This day was all of these!
I discovered new music from the friends I made where I stayed in Bourg St. Pierre! And also learned it is okay to drink the white water if you are above the cows.
So I drank from a mountain stream! As luck, Providence, or synchronicity would have it, I trailed behind another pilgrim for the day who captured it on video, and lent an extra water bottle when I forgot mine!
