Walk To San Juan De Los Lagos

Rosy invited me to join her on the last leg of a pilgrimage she promised to make to San Juan de los Lagos to see the miraculous image of the virgin. Some people walk the distance from Salamanca in three days. Others take up to five days to complete the journey. It took Rosy eighteen years. The final leg was long enough, thirty-eight kilometers along open highway past trees, water tanks, old buildings and road kill. We baked ourselves in the sun and pounded our legs on the pavement, but it was worth it. I joined Rosy for a prayer of thanksgiving inside the cathedral.