where is the goal?

Today we started on the long walk from Burghos to Leon - a distance of several hundred km´s. Several people suggested that - as this is a boring stretch of countryside - that we could take the bus and make the journey more enjoyable. Today we knew why they suggested tyhis to us. We walked on top of a plateau for hours and all we could see was fields of grass, wind turbines, piles of rocks that farmers had collected over the centuries and a muddy path that was trying very hard to dry up. At times it was windy, rainy, and now and then the the sun came through. But the temperature was easy to walk in.

We started off by walking 20 km´s to a town and when we arrived there decided to do another 6 to another hostel. But when we saw the hostel there, we decided to do another 5km´s. It ended up being a long, hard walk - but the hardest thing was that over those last 5 km´s there was no sign of our town - our destination. Flat as the landscape was there was no town in sight. All we could see was piles of rocks which we hoped was a village in the distance.

But then we saw a sign - Hontanas .5km and then we saw the church steeple rising above the landscape. The village with all its hostels was in a valley - hidden from our sight.

Question: When the goal is obscured, is walking towards it sometimes too difficult?