E. PIRI's journey to HER PLACE of education: Piri and her young son Lucit travel to a high mountain village where she will be taught her life's work.
Her voyage to that place was a safe one, with her two-year-old son bundled around her and several warriors as escorts.
Being safe and well supplied allowed them to enjoy the wonders of the terrain they crossed, slowly and painstakingly, to get to where they were going to be for a whole two years of training as a healer and a seer, a person with a visionary gift.
We made this same treck in a few hours of hard driving, and I hope the appearnace of modern roads and villages doesn't detract from the wonder of the scenery that Piri beheld on her journey to a mountain near what is now the Ordesa National Park.
From her hide-out home in the lower Pyrenees, where her gifts were discovered by her hostess after her pregnancy began, she had to travel into the high Pyrenees and down into lower valleys time and again:
Crossing these mountains gave her some spectacular views, accented by early fall foliage displays:
One thing that has not changed in 2,000-plus years is the use of these mountains for cattle, sheep and goat grazing, with the amount of greenery available depending on slope, sun, and elevation:
Once through this particular mountain chain, the highest part of the Pyrenees became visible. Luckily, from this point on the trip was to the west, from one valley to the next, up and down and across rivers for days on end:
After about 20 days on the trail, the valley that leads to the mountain that was to be her home for four years appeared, but that will need to be a new page!
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