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[QUOTE="Aldy, post: 116187, member: 10673"] The hardest part for me, wasn't physical - it was emotional and it was the return home. Don't get me wrong, I have a wonderful family, great friends, a comfortable humble home, so it wasn't that I didn't miss my loved ones, it was the idea of leaving the paradise I had found which was the Camino journey itself. I was so fortunate to meet folks about mid point who would become some of my closest friends. We stayed together (6 of us and a donkey named Nestor!) and by the time we reached Santiago, we did not want to say goodbye, so those planning on leaving stayed a bit longer. We still stay in touch frequently, and two of the group came to visit me in Canada, spent 2 glorious weeks with me as we reminisced a lot about our adventures. I am heading back to the Camino in 3 months to redo it with two of the original group (and Nestor) while the other three will join us on various sections of the Camino. I am a frequent guest blogger on the site for the Camino Documentary ([url=http://www.caminodocumentary.org]http://www.caminodocumentary.org[/url]) and the director of the documentary has asked me to write about Life after the Camino. My first blog of my series is posted here [url=http://caminodocumentary.org/blog/?p=557]http://caminodocumentary.org/blog/?p=557[/url] - Life after the Camino - the discussions Upon my return from my second Camino, I plan on writing a book about Life after the Camino - - although there are hundreds of books on the history, the how-to, the personal journeys, but I haven't found much about the re-integration in our day-to-day life... The physical challenges are one thing, and most can be managed by slowing down and being very careful where we walk, but the emotional ones were the ones that challenged me (and still do!) Cheers from Canada [/QUOTE]
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