Day 14: Left Burgos around 7:00, decent weather to start. The walk out of Burgos wasn’t as badas the walk on, but it still wasn’t as good as the wall out of Logroño. Lots of cornfields,
then I stopped for breakfast (cafe con leche and chocolate croissant).
Then we enter the Meseta. “The rain in Spain falls mainily on the plain.” Yup, this is it, a high, relatively flat area with no shade.
However, this oasis did appear and I met some people from France (who wanted to know my thought on.... el presidente). I applied sunscreen and kept going. It wasn’t that hot, but 85 degrees and no shade isn’t awesome.
I finally arrived at my hostel in Hornillos del Camino and grabbed a bottom bunk near the window.
At the communal dinner I ran into the two guys from Korea again. Also at the table was a university student from S. Korea (studying fashion), an elementary teacher from S. Korea, a teachers aidefrom France, an elementary teacher from the Netherlands, a guy in IT from the Netherlands and a French couple who have been doing the camino in stages for the past few years (wife was a teacher, husband a middle school principal.). We hadpaella and it was delicious!
Oh, I also meet two university students from Philly.
Unfortunately the window was not super awesome because it was soooooo hot. Plus having ten people in a room made it hotter. Very little sleep and earplugs needed.
I’d planned on sleeping in the next day because the weather was suppose to be cloudy and chilly, but when people started getting up at 5am...🙄
However.....
Day 15:
It was suppose to rain and thunder until noon. Luckily, neither happened. Most of the Day was on the Meseta with nothing in sight. Megan (girlnfrom Philly) and her friend group (who’d met on the camino) passed by and said hi . The land is really, really flat and ZERO shade, so I was glad for cloud cover.
After 11km First stop was in Hontanas , a cute little town. Stopped for breakfastand then head on.
About 30 minutes before my final destination were the ruins of a convent that had served as a pilgrim hospital. There’s a small pilgrims albergue in the ruins.....
Finally, made it to Castrojeriz.
Side note.... weird skull and bones on the side of a church...
I took four million naps and then had dinner with a French family. They’re traveling the camino (started from home)as a family which I thought was pretty cool. Their high school aged son and mom had to go backto Burgos for some foot care, so it was just dad and two college aged kids. Every time I travel it amazes me how far behind much of America can be language (ie: speaking more tha one) and current issue wise. It was great talking history and economics with the familyand hearing about their travels (they’d lived in Chicago for a bit).
The hostel has a huge 19 bed dorm and then smaller rooms with 4-6 beds.
I’m in the 19 bed dorm by myself and it’s aircodotioned!!! Buenas noches! 
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