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Camino – Day 22
Camino - Day 22 I am now in week three of this pilgrimage journey, and I’m a couple of days away from crossing the 500km mark. Today was my shortest day yet (12km), due to the downstream spacing of available accommodations. Tomorrow I should be back on track for a...
Camino – Day 21
Camino - Day 21 I have now been walking the Camino for three weeks. In that time I have walked about 450km. It was a 26km/5 hour day, and my legs and feet are feeling a bit tired. Long stretches of open agricultural land, with only a few villages. The Camino ran...
Camino – Day 20
Camino - Day 20 After a rest day yesterday I set off early this morning with Venus still shining bright in the eastern sky. Leaving Sahagun I crossed an ancient stone bridge and headed west on the Camino, which ran relatively straight for most of the morning....
Camino – Day 19
Camino - Day 19 - a rest day I am taking today as a rest day. It feels both luxurious and a bit odd. I laid in my bunk while everyone else in the room was packing up and getting ready for a day of walking. I still had to be out of the albergue by 8:30, but I was...
Walking My Life
Sometimes as I walk a phrase will tickle my brain, inviting me to play with it, perhaps turning it into a haiku or a bit of poetry. For several days now, off and on, the phrase “walking into my life” has been showing up. It has a nice poetic feel about it, but...
Becoming a Peregrino
The Camino de Santiago is an ancient pilgrimage that pilgrims have been walking for hundreds and hundreds of years. And from the time I started planning this trip right up until very recently I have been uncertain about how to describe what I’m doing here....
Camino – Day 18
Camino - Day 18 It has been a lovely 22km day, over rolling hills through agriculture fields. I landed in the city of Sahagun, at the Albergue de peregrinos de La Santa Cruz. Sahagun is a larger city, but still small (a population of about 3,000). The numbers I’ve...
Camino – Day 17
Camino - Day 17 Today was a pleasant and uneventful 23km day. A chilly morning with clear skies, I was walking as the sun crested over the eastern horizon behind me. One of the things about walking the Camino is that the sunrise is behind you. The path always takes...
Walking the Camino
The Camino de Santiago is for walking. That is what you do. Everyday. You walk. Up hills and mountains. Across valleys and rivers. On pavement, dirt, gravel, sand, rocks, cobblestone, and mud. Next to highways, through the narrow streets of old world walled...
Camino – Day 16
Camino - Day 16 Another really lovely day on the Camino. 29 km - mostly on paths through the countryside. Yesterday I walked all morning in the pouring rain, with heavy winds coming straight into my face most of the way. It had its own kind of charm (mostly because...