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Am presently in Rabanal del Camino and looking forward to Gregorian Chant tonight!
I cherish the memory of Rabanal and the evening mass at the monastery more than any other place or event on the Camino. As to striking out in the wrong direction, if we didn't do that once in while we wouldn't...
He might have been the man I met a few days east of Leon. He was a WWII vet in his mid-ninties, an aviator, who still hiked the Appalachian Trail. A really nice guy. That was in the fall of '13, when I was 73 and walking in the company of a 80-year-old.
A peregrino, who otherwise was a clever and perspicacious companion, once said of the meseta, "There's nothing there." I asked him if he had noticed the sky.
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