We left Sarria early morning, snuck out of the Albergue around 7:15 and hopefully didn't wake anyone up. We had a full house last night and most us ate together, a man from Germany...his 3rd camino, a lady from Austin sold everything she had to spend a few years in Europe and find herself another couple from London.....using the Camino to contemplate having a family, 2 ladies from Italy...looking for true love....and a man from Australia....trying to give all the single women massages.
Still dark out, we left right past the Cathedral and its very large cemetery...very erie. Jim and I took pictures of each other in front of the gates and got very strange results....it looked like streaks of lights all around us. This is our last big mountain till we hit several days of flat. This was a very interesting walk....if you have ever been to the dairy farm land of Minnesota or Wisconsin.....picture that ...but on the sides of hills and mountains. Very lush and pretty and as we know cows can be at times very stinky. Our stop is the town of PortoMarin. It is an old port town on the Embalse de belsar (a large reservoir off the Belsar river)...it was actually a very old port town...maybe 1000 years ago. there are some old roman ruins on the river.
So you will see by some of the pictures that this farmland is fenced in by stone fences as far as the eye can see. These stone walls must have been built since the beginning of farming in this region. These stone walls really kept control over the livestock, crops, and whose land was whose. But today if they wanted to make a change it would be very hard to remove the wall and giving someone else control.
It took me a while after 2 weeks to give up control to Jim, he is a great navigator and he would say "lets go this way" and I would dispute him and question him. But I know he has control of the maps and every now and then I question him and I just tell myself to shut up and let my son have control of what he is best at.
Lesson Learned
When you find someone else that can do a better job at something, give up control and let them do it. When you are learning something new, give up control to someone that is helping you and let them help you.
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