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This was my husband. So many thanks to all of my fellow pilgrims who stopped to help and to pray and to translate for me.
He was doing what he loved.
Thank you for the news article link.
La Voz de Galicia has reported the death of a 65 year old pilgrim from the United States this afternoon near Castromaior. The likely cause appears to be a heart attack. The pilgrim was walking the Camino with his wife...
I'm not sure why I felt compelled to write something here though I feel as though others will relate to this. I will be leaving from Dublin via ferry to Cherbourg and walking over 1500km until I reach Santiago. This journey begins in a little...
Perhaps a relevant note:
I do a lot of timed endurance walks.
The advertised distance is often 13.1 miles - approximately 21 km. But that measurement assumes that the competitor always takes the shortest distance at every point on the course...
Everyone needs to understand that this mechanism is hundreds of years old. It employs precise geometry and engineering - for the time. All the parts are custom made. You cannot just go to the local DIY store for replacement parts.
When the rest...
Hi Jill - The way this was - I turned left onto the (old new ) track and then noticed one set of boot tracks in the snow ( small so I thought it was a woman ahead of me) ) after a while I noticed the dear tracks and then one set of paw prints...
Wikiloc is an app that you can use to find trails and tracks. Just search on the app to find what you want. Lots of people use it and there are lots of tracks!
Wolves! I want to see a wolf! At one point, there was a local man was walking a ways ahead of us on the road. A couple of large canines - looked like wolves to me! - slipped down out of the forest and were walking behind him. Looked like they...
Apparently none of the routes were flooded. We left Requejo on the 525 highway. Then, if you have Wise Pilgrim, you will not detour to Aciberos to the right, but instead will turn left to be on the new old new old route. Jajaja! Dont worry either...
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