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Isn't it amazing how the stars do align for the things that we are called to do?
Ive now decided that the world is divided into exactly two kinds of people.
When you mention that you are undertaking this journey people either:
1. ask you more about it, with a twinkle in their eye, look at...
Im 36 sleeps away...I can't wait! Yikes! Im just ready to go!!!
Darn family commitments! Cant those people get married another time? I have my Camino to get to!!!
I am walking at the same time. I hope we will meet on the trail.
My mother used to say that we are all brave until someone else tells us we shouldn't be.
Be brave!
Remember Dr Suess..." Oh the places you'll go"
Buen Camino!
I love the idea of being " unreachable"
I remember years ago I saw a receptionist with a headset in a washroom answering calls and thought that in the future the real luxury will be to be unreachable......
The future has arrived!
Enjoy it!
just my humble opinion but Ive been planning forever and I have thought often how much simpler it would be to just....GO!!!
Ive thought and re thought...bought and re bought.... sought and re sought equipment, advice, information.
Im sure you will be totally fine. Spain is not a third world...
Thanks so much for all of the thoughtful replies.
After thinking and considering and talking with him I decided to go it alone this year and invite him ( and his brothers next year.
...... it also occurred to me that if he came there would be no-one to look after my very large and not so...
Wow ! Great answers. How can everybody be right???? LOL.
We just walked to the mall ( 10 km ) .....I thought I might need bail money!!!
Its decided- I will walk solo and take him and possibly his older/ younger brothers another time.
Heck - maybe I will skip my own kids altogether and take...
I am walking solo SJPdP Sept. 2018.
My 21 year old son has expressed interest ( as long as I pay of course) in walking with me.
I'm just concerned that his being along will change my Camino. Ive been dreaming about it for 30 years. Someone on a thread about bringing teenagers said all is good...
I too will be celebrating my birthday while on the Camino starting in SJPdP Sept 1 2018. I first heard about the Camino while biking around Ireland in my 20's. I planned way back then to do this with my mom who would have been 75 on the day we started and my sister ( we both are 50 for a part of...
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