Belgioioso to Santa Cristina e Bissone – 8 miles in 4 hoursIt was such an exciting day! We had the rare opportunity to walk through RICE and CORN!Oh and BEANS!If it wasn’t for the mosquitos that ate us alive we might have been able to finish the day by sleep walking. It seems as if we’ve plowed this trail for days. It’s only the new bed each night that tells me we aren’t walking in circles.

Bug spray you say? This nasty army of blood suckers plugged their noses and bit away – resistant to deet. The good news is that we registered the fastest miles per hour on the whole trip!I kid about the rice, corn and beans. The truth is that it’s beautiful – not just the landscape but the fact that we are all doing this together, we’re healthy, we get to visit, laugh, share and be still within ourselves.

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. ~Sarah Ban BreathnatchWe’ve all become huge fans of clouds and wind because the sun slowly sucks the life out of us like an aging helium balloon. Lucky for us the weather Gods has given us plenty of cloudy mornings.Tonight we are staying in a church donativo. All five of us are in one room. There are 10 in the building and there’s one bathroom.

Roxanne’s post and photos:

Walking out of Belgioioso into the corn and rice fields of the Lombardi Plains

Irrigation

Corn harvesterCoffee with heavy creamSidewalk cafe in Torre de’ Negri

Beautiful in Santa Cristina e BissoneGelateriaFive beds and one bathroom hostel in Santa Cristina E Bissone