21st Day / Leon - Still in Leon

i can´t believe or remember from 2002 what having a day off from walking can do for the body and spirit. i feel great today and ready to start on the Camino de Santiago tomorrow, bright and early. i´m getting excited as i always do as a new adventure unfolds. today as i was showing leon to nicole everything came back to me; i remembered my favorite places, it´s just so thrilling for me to take a few steps and remember where my feet want to take me (new & old places)....it´s the adventure! i don´t feel i´m in a foreign country; no matter where i´ve been it all feels so familiar and i´ve been to many places here in spain that i haven´t been to before...next stage...learn the language, it´s more important to me than ever. i owe it to all the wonderful guys who we are fortunate enough to have work for us (marc & I refer to them as our amigos)and love them. in the cyber cafe we are at they are playing the greatet music from my life (since i was a little girl and, my mom would play the stereo so loud the next block could rock with her- thank you mom, ILY) i´m sitting here just dying to dance, smiling and rocking to the music! oh yeah, my heart is full. i´m talking really old songs, like-sweet talkin´guy; leader of the pack: under the boardwalk; i found my thrill on blueberry hill; hey venus; in the still of the night; and many many more, i am wanting to dance!!!!!!! no celebrations at this time in leon, although i think we may have missed one; as nicole and i entered leon yesterday morning we saw remnants of confetti strewn in many places; i think spain knows how to celebrate. oh, yesterday morning while eating breakfast nicole spotted a poster that told us there was a bull fight that very night. so we asked where the bull fight was and the two spanish men told us many km´s away, too far. they knew we were pilgrim´s and i didn´t think about it until we were well on our way but we could´ve taken a bus to where we came from to see the bull fight and then take the bus back to start walking again where we stopped. that was a great idea and if the situation arises again we´ll be on a bus to see the bull fight. it´s our journey and we can make it whatever we want, and we are loving it; pain, joy everything. LIFE IS GOOD. tomorrow morning we will be on our way once again. tomorrow will take us to Villadangos Del Paramo, 21.8 km. we now have a map of the elevations; tomorrow we will be " 800 meters. Stay tuned for the next days´adventure of nicole and arizona. Hola from Spain - AriZona