The Journey
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice --
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried...
Check out this earlier thread for other posts re weight loss or not while walking a camino.
In 2004 at 65 when I first began walking my height was 172 cm and weight 65 kilos. By the end of that camino and ever since my weight remains less than...
It's been seven years for me. When I returned home in 2017, I immediately bought another pair of trail running shoes exactly like the ones I wore out on the C. F. The idea was to do the Camino again on my 80th. Alas, they sit in my closet, in...
I have a cpap machine and it is silent once its on my face properly. This is better than my snoring any day andI wish many of my fellow pilgrims had done the same. I always pack an extension cord to, not just for cpap but also charging whatever...
I’d much prefer to sleep next to someone using a CPAP machine, over a loud snorer. The gentle hum of a CPAP machine lulls me into a gentle sleep, and keeps me there, but relentless snoring either doesn’t let me fall asleep, or wakes me if I’m...
Five years ago, June 2019 I carried a stone from Texas to the Camino for my Grandmother. She passed before I walked my first Camino in 2017 but I believe she would have loved hearing about my walk. I knew exactly where I would leave it, walking...
Yesterday, Phil and I had a flat tire on the road to Seward after going through a long section of road construction. We were stopped in a paved pull off. We have roadside assistance, but no phone service there.
Our spare tire was stored in the...
I think walking solo gives you lots of time to really learn about yourself. Hopefully it’s the realisation that your life doesn’t have to be so complex. It can be hard not to fall into the same rut- but now your eyes are open.
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