johnnyman
Active Member
OK, I´m three days into my first-ever Camino, and I have a little bone to pick with you veterans. Although I got wonderful advice, tips, helpful hints, etc., from people on t his forum, nobody told me how incredibly difficult the Camino actually can be. It is nothing like walking alongside the highway in Texas, where I live. In Texas, it is flat! The terrain here is absolutely brutal, and I have given up hope of walking the entire distance from Pamplona to Santiago. I simply won´t have enough days before my flight back home. So I will have to add some bus riding to my itinerary. Nevertheless, I will not consider it to be a failure, by any stretch of the imagination. One of the reasons for my coming here was to conquer fear(s). And I was certainly confronted by those fears, shortly after I arrived. I wanted very much to turn around and go home. So, for me, to simply stick it out and make it to the end -- on foot and some by bus -- is a resounding success for me ...