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  1. homa_bird

    Top Five Things I Hate About (returning from) the Camino…

    Yes I struggle the same way you do!...I just want to run/walk away all the time! Life is hard right now... I finished my camino a year ago, and all I want to do is take off and walk away again. Buuuut, this doesn't seem wise, so I don't. For me, it's pretty simple. All I had to do when on...
  2. homa_bird

    accommodation in st jean de pied

    I really loved the La Napoleon Auberge just outside of town, within easy walking distance (on the Camino, actually!) Probably impossible to book, though. The owner is a wonderful Basque man, and he has an English wife. You can find out about the place only through the pilgrim office. Ask for...
  3. homa_bird

    Walking for a sick friend

    I walked the Camino for my grandson, who had been battling cancer for a year when I left. He had finished his chemo and radiation therapy before I planned for and began the CF, and we thought he was going to be okay, but it was a very bad kind of cancer and there was a substantial chance of it...
  4. homa_bird

    The Awesome Guy Who Has Lived 4 Years In A Farmer's Shed Near Astorga

    I love this video, how I remember him almost a year ago today.
  5. homa_bird

    Macabi skirt - I'm taking the plunge

    Re-impregnate? Sounds interesting... like the skirts now have a very full life :) (more complex than mine own, to be sure LOL) seriously, how does one re-impregnate?
  6. homa_bird

    Macabi skirt - I'm taking the plunge

    How do you wash and dry them? Mine accidentally went in the dryer and feels kinda of different... Or do you just shake and wear???
  7. homa_bird

    The Awesome Guy Who Has Lived 4 Years In A Farmer's Shed Near Astorga

    Yes! Hello!
  8. homa_bird

    The Awesome Guy Who Has Lived 4 Years In A Farmer's Shed Near Astorga

    Yes, I love this man David. He was the highlight of my entire trip. I know that sounds strange, with all the beautiful churches and vistas and all...but for me, his love and his choice of how to live his life, without possessions and entirely for others, provided the most meaningful moment of...
  9. homa_bird

    How Dangerous are the Pyrenees?

    Walking to the moon! That's quite an image! I think there was a rocket involved? But I was young, alas, and cannot remember for sure. :) Anyways I went over the top in fog so thick you couldn't see the peregrino two steps ahead. Sometimes the fog would thin for a few moments and we could see...
  10. homa_bird

    LIVE from the Camino When your Camino doesn't go 'as planned'

    Oooooh yeah! Got 2 b Tote happy feet now! :) ...<<<***!***>>>... Here's to a byoootiful foot dream! While they heal, they can dream! Dream Good Dreams Feet!
  11. homa_bird

    How Fit Were You at the Start?

    There is a kind of energy on the Camino that helps you along, it feels very different than walking/training alone at home. I remember when I was on the Camino, a very old person I was walking beside stopped, smiled and shuffled her feet slowly in the dirt, raising the dust. Then she said...
  12. homa_bird

    Member's Forum names

    I took my name from the beautiful story, from Iran I believe (Zoroastrian?) of the homa bird (sometimes seen spelled huma). The homa bird, it is said, never touches ground, it lives high in the sky and spends it's entire lifetime there. When it lays an egg, the egg falls through the sky, and...
  13. homa_bird

    LIVE from the Camino Is it just me???

    I remember meeting my birth mother for the first time after a decades long search for her, I was about 40 years old. I felt disappointment too. I think at the end of a long, long journey of the soul or of the foot, there can be a sense of disappointment, no matter how you have carefully...
  14. homa_bird

    How do people adjust to home after their return from the Camino?

    Best way to adjust, imho, is to not stop being on Camino. How do I know I'm still on Camino? Still walking. Still learning how to accept adverse circumstances with grace. Still pullin up next to someone, sharing time and stories, then continuing on. Still looking up at the same sky. Still...
  15. homa_bird

    LIVE from the Camino When your Camino doesn't go 'as planned'

    This is your camino! And a beautiful one it is, if I may say so. The worst possible journey would be the one with no struggle, the easy-peasy feather in the cap camino that raises one's self esteem but lessens empathy, tolerance and love . You, friend, are breaking open your heart and your...
  16. homa_bird

    Upset stomachs!

    Thank you so much Rebekah! I think this is all those of us who experienced illness in that region are asking for; a discreet inquiry. Who in their right mind/heart would want to harm or damage a business trying to make ends meet, support a family etc.? Certainly not me, or anyone else on this...
  17. homa_bird

    Upset stomachs!

    Actually the most common varieties of food poisoning occur in two hours. 2-6 hours is standard, what you can expect. Check any state or govt website: most common reaction time to food borne toxins: 2 hours. Here is Indiana, which is taken from a pretty standard info template re food...
  18. homa_bird

    Upset stomachs!

    Ummmm, This is a bit of profiling? North Americans are a vast population (about 530,000,000) we are all over the map with our hygiene, as diverse as any group of folks half a billion strong. I personally live a very microbe rich life, (you don't want to see my kitchen, and as we speak there is...
  19. homa_bird

    Upset stomachs!

    Yes, I appreciate what Mr. Fitz says, but I am another pilgrim who ate dinner at (name deleted) and was vomiting violently two hours later (last September), and all through the night. I have no intention of dissuading people from going there specifically, but what is in my heart is to help...
  20. homa_bird

    Rain ... And more rain

    "think (ing) back" being the key phrase here ;) kind of like labor pains: if we really remembered how it felt, there would be, maybe, only a dozen or so people on the planet, tops :D

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