Day 3: Zubiri to Pamplona, Spain

Resilience, the word of the day. Today’s walk was 22 KMs of mostly flat trail and urban sprawl as we enter Pamplona a city of ~200k, and where Ernest Hemingway lived for a part of his life. Hemingway once said, “The most beautiful people we encounter in life are often those who have walked through fire.”

Tha Camino’s first days can feel very much like walking through fire in the sense of the struggle to put one foot over the next and keep driving forward. It’s a symbol of life itself, move forward even when you don’t think you can take another step. The delicate art of resilience. Facing defeat, hardship, loss, these trials bring out the true inner beauty in people. None of us escape life without walking through fire but it’s how you come out the other side that matters in what the rest of your life will become.

I learned today, the question isn't what is life about, instead it is what is the true purpose of your one and only life. Is it to play golf or to do something more? A life of leisure or to give back? We can do both but what brings more satisfaction is the difference between selfish and selfless. Happy Easter. Enjoy the pictures of todays journey:

Departing Zubiri

Peanut the puppy

Horses in a field

Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice. Refreshing

Entering the gate into Pamplona

Pintxos

More Delicious Pintxos

Feeling Better After Eating Pintxos