nismo4life
New Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Camino Frances (2012)
Hey all. I'm Juan. Decided to join not too long ago after lurking and using the archived posts on here to stock pile knowledge on this tremendous endeavour I'm about to embark on. Sorry for rambling, its what I do best haha.
I watched the Emilio Estevez film "The Way" back in February when it came out on Netflix. I don't really begin to explain to you why it effected me the way it did or how, but after watching it something clicked. I had read about the a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in my art history class, even studied and had a test on first century church architecture and one of the topics discussed was the church in Santiago, yet when the teacher spoke of the pilgrimage of course all had some different idea of what it actually was in my head.
Fast forward 2 months and I get a chance to see the film and I realized how wrong of an assumption I had made about El Camino. I started doing research and kind of decided to myself that I wanted to do the Camino at some stage in my life. I put it on my bucket list and as a few months passed kept it to myself. I watched the movie a few more times and one day kind of just decided that I'd like to do this next year in the spring. Next spring almost immediately turned into I'm doing this 3 months from now.
The pieces began to fall together even better than I could of imagined and suddenly what was once a kind of "oh that'd be cool to do" thought in the back of my head turned into a full blown quest and my reasoning's for doing this multiplied, so I planned this trip to be 7 weeks, 5 to walk and 2 to explore Spain.
I head out Sept 25th, so maybe I'll see some of you there! I'll have an American, and Argentine flag on my pack. Feel free to bother me, I'm sure I'll get lonely :lol:
I watched the Emilio Estevez film "The Way" back in February when it came out on Netflix. I don't really begin to explain to you why it effected me the way it did or how, but after watching it something clicked. I had read about the a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in my art history class, even studied and had a test on first century church architecture and one of the topics discussed was the church in Santiago, yet when the teacher spoke of the pilgrimage of course all had some different idea of what it actually was in my head.
Fast forward 2 months and I get a chance to see the film and I realized how wrong of an assumption I had made about El Camino. I started doing research and kind of decided to myself that I wanted to do the Camino at some stage in my life. I put it on my bucket list and as a few months passed kept it to myself. I watched the movie a few more times and one day kind of just decided that I'd like to do this next year in the spring. Next spring almost immediately turned into I'm doing this 3 months from now.
The pieces began to fall together even better than I could of imagined and suddenly what was once a kind of "oh that'd be cool to do" thought in the back of my head turned into a full blown quest and my reasoning's for doing this multiplied, so I planned this trip to be 7 weeks, 5 to walk and 2 to explore Spain.
I head out Sept 25th, so maybe I'll see some of you there! I'll have an American, and Argentine flag on my pack. Feel free to bother me, I'm sure I'll get lonely :lol:
