Yes, 30 miles, which is about 50k. Wasn’t I just talking a couple days ago about less expectation and making new physical and mental pathways? I want to speak to this. It’s one of the main topics of my thinking, pondering, praying during my Camino journey. I have always been a go-getter, do-er, and I love to push myself. I …
Because I walked long yesterday, I was able to do a more reasonable-length walk today and get into Burgos in the early afternoon. Burgos has a population of 180,000, and in my estimation is a beautiful and welcoming bigger city. I found some interesting info in my guidebook by John Brierly, about Burgos. It is sometimes referred to as the …
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 …
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 …