I booked my flight to Madrid today for March 11. I was to have begun my camino on March 07 but circumstances did not permit this. My best friend, Marybel, will be with me as she knows people in Spain. It will be the red eye into Madrid where I will arrive in the morning the next day. Marybel will make arrangements for us to be picked up at the airport. Then we will either take the train or bus through Pamplona onto Roncesvalles, the first leg on the camino.

Though I have a bare skeletal plan for this trip, it does not feel like I should do more with the planning. I do not know what I will encounter and how I will do. I just know that there are no expectations except a direction. That is all I have.

As much as I first thought that this is solely my Camino De Santiago, it appears now that it includes my best friend, Marybel. I like the idea that she is there for support but she can also be a minor distraction from my desire for inner alone reflection. We will both be doing the Camino for our own very different reasons. Perhaps, the lesson here is “inclusion”. The Yin And Yang of everything. I must include it all to understand it all. I am not sure how this will play out. I trust it well enough that it is as it should be and will unfold naturally.