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Past,present and future
Thanks for sharing your adventures!
This forum will be a touchstone someday in the future ..where you had gone and how far, from where and when
A Canterbery tales sort of snapshot in time.
The tales of ...of.....?
Go to where your name is written
Go...
Somewhere Else.
Not some door
Nor address
But in your place among the stars
Where the wild winds call your name
The world knows your name
Its the music in your head
The beat in your heart
The time in your steps...
Where you will swirl around the floor...
Me? I traveled 25 years or so on my version
The difference is i came home a stranger. Stranger to my home,family and place where I grew up.
I dont fit in
People dont understand my world views,vision and how i look at life.
The traveled ones understand me
They have seen,felt and lived away from...
Sorry for the literary licence,it was more concerned with a persons thoughts going back to a place and time unexpectedly..or..fondly to the same..and 2k!!!!
Did it make a difference in your short term, long term and lifetime?
Did it change your soul..or chain it forevermore to some dusty track in Spain
Are you in the ever present because of it, or are you still back..there....
It was dark with clouds and rain here in Tx.
In the path of totality, it got nite dark..with clouds according to newsies.
Best of luck up north and east!
She may have reached her Santiago's, but now her eternal adventures begin.
May the sun warm her face
May the wind be at her back
May she never tire
May her laughter be heard in the winds of all the peregrinos travels
RIP
I hope you can find Buffalo Trace, a Makers Mark or a Rebecca Creek out in the wilds of Spain!
In wonder if Spain Had access to allocations?
Blantons..while wildly overpriced for a at best mud tier alcohol...
As for tobbacco, was always drawn toward sweet,leathery pipe tobacco aromas
Its funny, the liguistic decomposition of Jarra...generic here on the border for a Jar type.
Jarritas will get you fruit juices from clay jars that are refreshing..refrescos..same
There is a brand of hard chocolate that you break off pieces and mix in hot milk
"Abuelitas" branded which is a dark chocolate with cinnamon in the mix
Which makes a very cozy cup of goodness
Also Heard...
Fireball cinnamon flavor whiskey....I heard when added to said chocolate milk mix..adds a...
I found out when after one particularly hungry sesh..that the little tiny marshmallows in the packets of hot chocolate were good..then a handfull of marshmallows was better and out of the jar...?
Was brilliant!!!
Beef jerky,turkey jerkey,buffalo jerky,ostrich from a real Texas provider of fine proteins..Prasek's(Pra sheks) Hilje Smokehouse.
Funny thing, ill be passing a Bucky's in a few hours near Wimberly,Tx..a bunch of fuel islands, snacks,jerkys.cloths with a cute beaver with a hat..
Ill send pics on...
I wonder how many,if any get caught up in the idea...or ideal of the Camino
To be sure it captured my imagination and reinforced by videos and pictures.
I am quick to seek and find the good in things.
But
Amidst all the opertunities..there would be walking, sweat,footsore ness
Hard time sleeping...
No waters are ever the same
Time and tide will have taken the characters far from who they were
Whether or not they were transformed..did they find resolution?
May we see the waters in a different time but same place
What currents run in the flow of souls toward the sea
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