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  1. catheriam

    Tomorrow is the day! Yesssssss!!!!!!!!!!!

    A Jackie Gleason fan! ;) Will begin my fourth on 11 April from Roncesvalles, a circuitious route from new expat home in Portugal. Bus from Pamplona to Roncesvalles prompted by an inspired commitment to same April departure from same Abbey early April 2002. Now older! Heavier of hip, lighter...
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    Accommodation - to book or not to book

    I was 59 in 2002 and none of the WiFi whiz tech was available. 17 lbs in my Kelty, later a Vaude. Hardly anyone in Colorado Springs, including REI, had a clue where I was going. "Pilgrimage across Spain... are you like a nun, or something?" (Ah, no!) Roncesvalles to Zubiri, did not like the...
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    New Camino route identified

    "Dewey, Cheatham and Howe" For which two brothers did they serve as attorneys?
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    Trash pick up

    Oh Rita, fair Camino Saunterering Lady! I had two bouts of Covid 2023, which has done a number on my "breathlessness" and, at 79, slowed my planned weight loss. . So 11 April, my fourth CS, I plan to be "sauntering forth" from Roncesvalles and make it as far as Viskarret. First CF in 2002, I...
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    Is anyone currently (March 10, 2024) on the Camino Frances - Ponferrada now?

    Cherish with your entire being you have this solitude in which to refresh your spirit, in whatever way that is appropriate for you. St Jimmy the Everpresent Encourager is rightalongside you!
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    Weather forecast - YIKES??!

    Leaving Coimbra to either train or bus to Pamplona on 08 April. One night in Pamplona, perhaps an emergency dash to Dacathlon; shake off the travel sitting. I have given up on Amazon.es living up to its erratic delivery times and bureaucratic nightmare of returning that which does not fit...
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    Seeing a lot of pilgrims starting in Roncesvalles...issues with SJPDP now?

    Amen ... Ultreya ... Get 'er done!
  8. catheriam

    Proper Bag Transfer Etiquette

    Oh in Spring 2002, even thinking taxi-backpack meant a frown of great judgment was visited upon one: "This is not the pilgrim Way! Your Camino will not count unless you walk every inch and suffer!" I did not walk every inch, I had one taxi transfer, I received my ComposteIa, I swore I...
  9. catheriam

    Where did that Town Go??

    So, I am not alone? Whew! My first Camino (2002) was on the CF and in 2012, It thought to repeat it. Wait, what? Where is that town/church/alburgue? It was NOT up a hill, now way! Or, was it? Cartoon of Catherine with head exploding! I was seeking to repeat an unrepeatable memory (a Xerox...
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    Better late than never

    Tacked neatly on my kitchen wall and on adjacent wall is Salvador Dali's "Rose". Missouri in my residence; Spain on my mind.
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    Hope lives on...

    Sitting in my midwinter Missouri breakfast table listening to "Pilot Me" as I pray for Spain and Portugal to receive the grace of St James to recover in perfect timing and in perfect ways from COVID-19, Camino-planning(longing) for my fourth in Autumn 2021 ... with tears running down my face.
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    Discouraged in Florida

    I lived in Central Florida for ten years: Orlando, Maitland, Altamonte Springs and Hyde Park area in Tampa. Oh, did I walk Bayshore! I walked an hour a day, in thunder storms, on golf courses, on sidewalks, in all weathers. . I lived in and hiked alone in England, Scotland and Colorado...
  13. catheriam

    Sadly I have to resign my planned october 2020 last stage.

    I was truly -- in every sense of the word -- "Inspired" to respond to Paddy's concerns that continuous flight delays were spelling an end to his Camino completion from O Cebreiro. Thank you for the Latvian choir insert , which I shall listen to in a moment. I have read and heard the last...
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    Sadly I have to resign my planned october 2020 last stage.

    May timely flights rise to lift you from your Emerald Home to Spain of the Many Ways, may the hands of St James and St Patrick warmly hold both of yours at a transport centre and support you to obtain a mask-responsible ride up the winding hills to O Cebreiro, may the sun smile without excessive...
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    Crossing from France to Spain.

    I am so grateful that Ivar kept us daily ... I sometimes think it was hourly ... postings to this Forum from the beginning of the clearly horrific impact of coronavirus on Spain. Normally my Camino would begin in April, but a deep sense even back in late 2019 warned me this would not happen...
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    Talking about work while on the Camino

    As long as you ask (and you did ask), Say "Hospital administration". And shrug, like "it's such a boring job, what can do you". If you don't want to give massages, bandage your hands. In three Caminos and dozens of pilgrim conversations, I scarcely knew anyone's profession, nor they mine...
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    La Peregrina

    A must stop for this pilgrim in Sahagun / Spring 2021.
  18. catheriam

    LIVE from the Camino An update

    I begin my third Camino de Santiago out the front door of Roncesvalles on 22 March 2019. I intend ("man proposes, God disposes"!) a route of a bit of this and a bit of that. Camino Frances to Lugo, a train to Ferrol and the Camino Ingles to Santiago de Compostela, then a "reverse" Camino...

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