shefollowsshells
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- Several alone and with children
I was attaching this to the other "rescue", but I suspect that thread might be fizzling, though I am tempted to hide this among the fizzle because I can assure you I certainly don't want to hear a lecture from anyone!
But I thought by sharing my story, though it is public on a blog...that people will know the situations that they can get themselves into...
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and here is my Bomberos story for those that might not have read or heard of it...
Cliff note version I was walking with five of my six children when this happened the youngest was 9 (11,13,15,17).
We had the Le Puy route behind us...a jaunt over to Roncesvalles on the Napoleon route, and jaunt back on the Napololeon route..."just for kicks"
We were now heading North on the GR10 to start the Norte.
We were in LOVE with all things Camino, We were madly in love with each other...we were, I guess, overly confident...and I ( not we it was my responsibility) I did EVERYTHING wrong
on this day once we left SJPP. We were so happy, we were high as a kite, we stopped and kissed on every dog and cat that would put up with us. We spoke at length with a farmer and his wife.
We left SJPP at 2pm for what I thought would be four hours of walking. I did EVERYTHING wrong this afternoon, and had my five precious children with me (bad mom)...
If you want to read about it I have attached it. On this date I posted several things BUT to save you time go down 33 percent of the way down the screen...past the image of our shoes that we are whining about falling apart
(and here I go again, totally wreckless...I'm about to buy the EXACT same shoes for our next 1,050 miles on the Camino in 6 weeks)!!!
***Start at ..."We had the laziest day...."
and you can see where over confidence and being rather lazy , and not paying total attention , as a seasoned pilgrim had already shared a good route with me and instead I without much thinking used a paper from the pilgrims office as my guide.
I however did not call for "rescue"...I called to ask IF I was close to anything and it was rescue that demanded that I stay put...and even then I was non compliant to a point. where staying still with zero phone battery I decided was dangerous.
Knowing we are all safe and sound I wouldn't trade this memory for anything, so many little nooks and crannies of experience and memories presented themselves to us from this mistake.
We slept in the town where the Bomberos were from, bought them some treats in the town when we arrived, and slept outside hanging out with many of the Bomberos friends that they grew up
with. the guys wrote their phone number on the back of a piece of paper, it was only when I got home that I saw it was the printed report that printed off when I called the emergency number (the only number I knew off hand). It is funny to read "American mom with five kids..." (sigh)....
http://shefollowsshells.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2016-10-15T15:54:00-04:00&max-results=1
Frances, F & M (2012),Norte, Inglais (2014)
But I thought by sharing my story, though it is public on a blog...that people will know the situations that they can get themselves into...
*****
and here is my Bomberos story for those that might not have read or heard of it...
Cliff note version I was walking with five of my six children when this happened the youngest was 9 (11,13,15,17).
We had the Le Puy route behind us...a jaunt over to Roncesvalles on the Napoleon route, and jaunt back on the Napololeon route..."just for kicks"
We were now heading North on the GR10 to start the Norte.
We were in LOVE with all things Camino, We were madly in love with each other...we were, I guess, overly confident...and I ( not we it was my responsibility) I did EVERYTHING wrong
on this day once we left SJPP. We were so happy, we were high as a kite, we stopped and kissed on every dog and cat that would put up with us. We spoke at length with a farmer and his wife.
We left SJPP at 2pm for what I thought would be four hours of walking. I did EVERYTHING wrong this afternoon, and had my five precious children with me (bad mom)...
If you want to read about it I have attached it. On this date I posted several things BUT to save you time go down 33 percent of the way down the screen...past the image of our shoes that we are whining about falling apart
(and here I go again, totally wreckless...I'm about to buy the EXACT same shoes for our next 1,050 miles on the Camino in 6 weeks)!!!
***Start at ..."We had the laziest day...."
and you can see where over confidence and being rather lazy , and not paying total attention , as a seasoned pilgrim had already shared a good route with me and instead I without much thinking used a paper from the pilgrims office as my guide.
I however did not call for "rescue"...I called to ask IF I was close to anything and it was rescue that demanded that I stay put...and even then I was non compliant to a point. where staying still with zero phone battery I decided was dangerous.
Knowing we are all safe and sound I wouldn't trade this memory for anything, so many little nooks and crannies of experience and memories presented themselves to us from this mistake.
We slept in the town where the Bomberos were from, bought them some treats in the town when we arrived, and slept outside hanging out with many of the Bomberos friends that they grew up
with. the guys wrote their phone number on the back of a piece of paper, it was only when I got home that I saw it was the printed report that printed off when I called the emergency number (the only number I knew off hand). It is funny to read "American mom with five kids..." (sigh)....
http://shefollowsshells.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2016-10-15T15:54:00-04:00&max-results=1
Frances, F & M (2012),Norte, Inglais (2014)
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