My friend Christy Graham, who I have mentioned before because she and her husband Cary walked the Camino two springs ago, sent me this quote in an email yesterday: “As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we …
Short day! I had planned to walk just a couple hours this morning to the next city of Santo Domingo, which is a small-medium city of 6,600. There is a nice square, cathedral with museum, tower, and cafes to peruse. My Camino-predacessors and advice-givers Christy and Cary Graham told me they had stayed in this town and treated themselves to …
So fortunately, I have been sleeping pretty well each night. Earplugs help a lot, as snoring and rustling of sleeping bags and whatnot is really distracting. I’m so tired each night that I think that just takes over and I become comotose for 7-8 hours (more sleep hours than I usually get at home!). Lights out at the albergues is …
Today was a long day but filled with great sights and thoughts. I began down the road and after 5 minutes of not seeing any Flechas Amarillas, my guard was up and I decided to turn back and see if I had missed one. And I had. They never fail me! It’s a great analogy for life – watch for …
Today I walked most of the Way with my little group of French friends – Florence and I had walked together before, and then she added a gal named Melanie, an older gentleman named Pascal (newly retired), and a younger man named Anrique (Ahn-reek). All spoke a little English and wanted to practice (as I want to practice my Spanish …
I am using the John Brierley “A Pilgrim’s Guide to the Camino de Santiago” as my guidebook, as it came highly recommended. It is very useful and I reference it multiple times a day. It sometimes gives options for routes off the main Camino, which always merge into the main route eventually. They offer some different views and sometimes allow …
Today was long and difficult, physically, but mentally I was so excited and pushed myself a bit harder than I should have because of it. And also because I am in the process of trying to shed some of my habits of expecting myself to go long or do as much as possible. This is a goal of mine, to …
Hello and welcome to my blogsite, if you haven’t visited before. It was orginially set up to document and share my traithlon endeavors, and now that I’m not racing, I want to use it to share other types of adventures. I left on Sunday Sept 27th for France, to walk the hundreds of years old spiritual “pilgramage” called the Camino …
This year I was so looking forward to Thanksgiving. I haven’t been home to see my parents, in Ukiah, California, in a year! They have been very supportive and encouraging of my race endeavors this year, but it was high time I made it back to beautiful northern California to spend some time with them. They live in a lovely, …