Camino de Levante Photo Journal Toledo to Avila
I left La Mancha behind me as I left Toledo heading northwest and north toward Avila around Madrid. The paths were more demanding leading me up and down valleys and over pass after pass.
The wind remained a factor some days but the cold was not so heavy. Not so for those a couple days ahead of me: they walked in a snow storm one day. Not me.
The closer I got to Avila the more I thought about stopping the pilgrimage walk in Avila. Stopping was a theme for me throughout the walk. Petra and I had talked about stopping walking all together. After all, we had walked several long walks in the past nine years. I could stop it in Avila. Petra had said much earlier that it was time for her to stop.
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Had to take my picture in this traffic mirror outside Toledo. What am I carrying under my coat? (18 Apr 12)
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Toledo from a distance. (18 Apr 12)
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Route markers north of Toledo, We are the CS and shell. I don't know what the others are ( Apr 12)
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A farm I walked past. (18 Apr 12)
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A city gate in Escanola, a town with many of its walls still in tact. The church tower is built into the wall. (19 Apr 12)
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The seeds/flowers(?) and leaves of the tree in the following picture. (20 Apr 12)
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A tree along the Camino leaving Escanola. (20 Apr 12)
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Looking back up the road leading down out of Almorax. (20 Apr 12)
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Looking back toward Almorax. (20 Apr 12)
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Lavender along the road. (20 Apr 12)
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A woods between Almorax and San Martin. ( Apr 12)
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A flower. (20 Apr 12)
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Cebreros sits in the distant bowl, my evening destination. (21 Apr 12)
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I stand among the four Toros de Guisando, late Celtic era granite sculptures of bulls from no earlier than the second century of the common era. (21 Apr 12)
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A Roman bridge south of Cebreros. (21 Apr 12)
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A mountain southeast of Cebreros. (21 Apr 12)
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Mountains east of Cebreros in the morning light. Madrid is over there somewhere. (23 Apr 12)
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A horse along the path. (23 Apr 12)
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The path coming up from San Bartolomé de Pinares. (24 Apr 12)
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An elephant rock along the path south of Avila. (24 Apr 12)
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A photo map of Avila. My refugio was just outside the gate on this end of the town. (24 Apr 12)
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The north east wall of Avila. (27 Apr 12)
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Vegies in the market of Avila. (27 Apr 12)
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St. Theresa of Avila. (27 Apr 12)
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An Avila street.(27 Apr 12)
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A stork on Avila's cathedral. (29 Apr 12)
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More storks on a spire of the cathedral. (29 Apr 12)
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A zipper sculpture in front of Avila's bus station! (29 Apr 12)
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