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  1. Wheelchairpilgrim

    I dream about my wheelchair camino but need some answers

    I am on my way now for a few days. I did not completely translate my blog ( www.rolstoelpelgrim.nl ) in English but you can always do your self by clicking this link...
  2. Wheelchairpilgrim

    I dream about my wheelchair camino but need some answers

    Thanks. I can sit at home and feel sorry for myself about the things I can not do anymore, about my daily pain at, but I choose to do what I can do and what make me happy. And there is enough that is posible to do. And I prefer to have pain because I did something I did than to have pain anyway...
  3. Wheelchairpilgrim

    I dream about my wheelchair camino but need some answers

    No fancy word needed, however you call it it is fine for me. In dutch (my mother language) prefer handicap, but disabled is fine as well. I believe everyone have a disability. Some visable like me in my wheelchair, some not visible like learning disabilities, sometimes big (with giant...
  4. Wheelchairpilgrim

    I dream about my wheelchair camino but need some answers

    I will leave next week (3 september) for my wheelchair pilgrimage. This year I will roll from a Reims to Vezelay. I will write my blog on www.rolstoelpelgrim.nl it is also posible to read it in English and France (France is Google translate, sorry, I speak a little France but not enough to write...
  5. Wheelchairpilgrim

    I dream about my wheelchair camino but need some answers

    I found out a lot of walking roads are not wheelchair accessible. So 2018 I started to follow a mix between walking, cycling and car roads. And for me that works well. But when I roll on a road for cars it is really important to make myself visible. I always have a yellow flag on my wheelchair...
  6. Wheelchairpilgrim

    I dream about my wheelchair camino but need some answers

    @David Tallan, I do like the way you say that. It is just the way I see it. I always say I can do almost anything as long I have the right tools to help me (good wheelchair, splints, medicine, etc).
  7. Wheelchairpilgrim

    I dream about my wheelchair camino but need some answers

    #Iriebabel I start reading your camino story, it is inspiring. Thanks! #Kym G. That was an inspirational journey you made, that Joëlette is an interesting wheelchair. Not for me (I prefer to roll myself) but for other people it is great. thanks for all the other information. It will take a...
  8. Wheelchairpilgrim

    I dream about my wheelchair camino but need some answers

    Thanks for all you write. It is inspiring. I will be reading your story. (Mine is on www.rolstoelpelgrim.nl ) It is right that we can make it with the right preparation. A lot of (healty) people that start a Camino complete unprepared don't manage, get a lot of blisters, pain, or other problems...
  9. Wheelchairpilgrim

    I dream about my wheelchair camino but need some answers

    #Aidan21 Thanks. I think I am used to figting because of my health. When I was a teenager (and walking) I was intrested in the Camino after a tv program. When I was 20 my health became worse and with 23 I had my first wheelchair. I gave up on the Camino because I thought it was not possible...
  10. Wheelchairpilgrim

    I dream about my wheelchair camino but need some answers

    Thanks. I just go for reaching Santiago. It only will take some more years before I am there, one day I am in front of the Cathedral. At this moment I am preparing for September for the next stage from Reims to Vezelay. A lot in my preparation is different than for walking people, I do not...
  11. Wheelchairpilgrim

    I dream about my wheelchair camino but need some answers

    Thanks
  12. Wheelchairpilgrim

    I dream about my wheelchair camino but need some answers

    Yes, I read that and I saw the movie. And it is a great story, specialy because of the special friendship between them. My trip is completely different because I do it on my own, I have no one to push me, but I also like that. I love to roll on my own to quiet places, have time to think (or not...
  13. Wheelchairpilgrim

    I dream about my wheelchair camino but need some answers

    It is a long time ago that I wrote something here. 2016 I was thinking about going on pilgrimage to Santiago by wheelchair In stages but not I am doing is already for 3 years and planning my 4th stage. 2016 I did Haarlem to Den Bosch (NL), 2017 Den Bosch To Maastrich (NL) and 2018 I did...
  14. Wheelchairpilgrim

    I dream about my wheelchair camino but need some answers

    Thanks! I will write here later on (when I am back) a short stort about my pilgrimage in English to let you about it.
  15. Wheelchairpilgrim

    I dream about my wheelchair camino but need some answers

    I finale made a decicion about my camino. I go but for now I will start from home (the Netherlands) and wednesday I wil go for one week "walk" with my wheelchair from Haarlem to Den Bosch and next time I will see where and when I go. Maybe next holiday or next year. Time will tell. I will write...
  16. Wheelchairpilgrim

    I dream about my wheelchair camino but need some answers

    thanks, I can read german and understand when people speak slow but speaking myself is difficult.
  17. Wheelchairpilgrim

    I dream about my wheelchair camino but need some answers

    Thanks for all the replies and advises. I learned a lot. special the websites are very helpful. About my health, I have an connective tissue problem (EDS) and that give me sometimes (sub)luxations but I can put my joints almost always back myself but even that do not happen very often. I can...
  18. Wheelchairpilgrim

    I dream about my wheelchair camino but need some answers

    Thanks for the info and links. I did not knowhow thema and will check. I can not read spanish but I am sure with translation I can read it!
  19. Wheelchairpilgrim

    I dream about my wheelchair camino but need some answers

    Hi Everyone, Let me first introduce myself. I am a female wheelchair pilgrim from the Netherlands, but at this moment I do only short (one day) pilgrimage walks. I dream about doing the camino and hope that one day that dream will come truth. I can roll in my sport wheelchair (with special...

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