A challenging day on the camino

Today we started walking at 7.45. Six kilometres covered in the first hour. Thats fast, it was great fun. We stopped in a little village at a cafe serving hot tortilla, oh it was wonderfull. Then the kilometres start rolling on. It was during the long hard sections where as we dropped over 400 metres today that a lot of thinking was done. The path was treacherous, rocks,shards of stone standing up right, gullies,ledges. A leg break, ankle twist at every step. My arthritic knees suffered, and my blisters grew. My thoughts turned to my boots, why did I buy something ive not tried before. Why was I wearing two pairs of socks. Why was I doing this. Thats when I smiled and thought to myself this is why. All the questions all the problems all the challenges that I try to and have avoided, but out on the Camino I am answerable to myself only. I have to be responsible for myself, for my actions and how they effect me and other people. It was a tough day, I am stiff tired and sore but I am happy.