One was our “Shadow,” another “Lavender Boy” (he handed out sprigs of dried lavender and, play on words, we ran in to him twice in regard to laundry ~ once at a lavandería and again at a restaurant where he asked us to make change for the laundromat)
I just completed my first Camino which was also my second Camino. Last year I walked SJPP to Sarria with a friend and had to stop due to tibial tendonitis. This year I walked Triacastela via Samos to SdeC with a different friend to complete my Frances. It was also, tho, a completely different...
Last June ~ off-road as of Sarria with tibial tendonitis and still testing very light pink for Covid ~ bussed and taxied and met up with family and friends each evening ~ had a wonderful PT treatment in Arzua ~ it's all part of the Camino ~ I return this June to do Triacastela~Samos~Santiago ~
If my walking mate and I had not walked through ~ and indeed stayed in ~ Villadongos del Paramo ~ essentially a truck stop ~ we would not have met our best buddies on the Camino ~ everyone's Camino is different; for me, the most memorable and profound aspects of the walk were not always the...
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