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I am now mid 60's in age and started walking caminos in 2015. I've planned a 5-6 week walk each year since then, but wonder in the back of my mind how many more times I will be able to go. After all, each new year at this age going forward becomes a "what if" regarding ailments related to health. I'm still doing good so far, but I fear the day when a potential chronic and debilitating condition would prevent me from doing the long distance walks I love.
I am encouraged when ocassionally various forum members mention their most recent Camino walked and then happen to add in their post, "I was 73 when I walked my camino last year." I love hearing that as it gives me hope that there is possibly the potential to have quite a few more long distance walks in my future...I sure hope so.
I would appreciate hearing from some of you 70+ seniors who are making plans for your "next walk".
And I know a Forum member who walked her first camino for her 80th, from SJPP to Santiago.I know a forum member that walked his first Camino for his 75th birthday
Guess that puts me in diapers?I am a youngster in this category.
I am now mid 60's in age and started walking caminos in 2015. I've planned a 5-6 week walk each year since then, but wonder in the back of my mind how many more times I will be able to go. After all, each new year at this age going forward becomes a "what if" regarding ailments related to health. I'm still doing good so far, but I fear the day when a potential chronic and debilitating condition would prevent me from doing the long distance walks I love.
I am encouraged when ocassionally various forum members mention their most recent Camino walked and then happen to add in their post, "I was 73 when I walked my camino last year." I love hearing that as it gives me hope that there is possibly the potential to have quite a few more long distance walks in my future...I sure hope so.
I would appreciate hearing from some of you 70+ seniors who are making plans for your "next walk".
Hi there I will join you will arrive in Seville on 11th of February and will walk two or three days later cheers AntonI was 70 last year, but remember age is only a number. I still feel healthy and fit most of the time, although I do find getting up off the floor after romping with the grand children an effort sometimes.
I’ll be starting the VDLP in 40 days and my mind is set that I will complete it, all that remains is to explain this to my body.
So please don’t fret about age, you can only do what you can do and as a lot of us are retired we can take as long as we like.
Ages: 68 in '16, 69 in '17, 70 in '18, '71 in '19I am now mid 60's in age and started walking caminos in 2015. I've planned a 5-6 week walk each year since then, but wonder in the back of my mind how many more times I will be able to go. After all, each new year at this age going forward becomes a "what if" regarding ailments related to health. I'm still doing good so far, but I fear the day when a potential chronic and debilitating condition would prevent me from doing the long distance walks I love.
I am encouraged when ocassionally various forum members mention their most recent Camino walked and then happen to add in their post, "I was 73 when I walked my camino last year." I love hearing that as it gives me hope that there is possibly the potential to have quite a few more long distance walks in my future...I sure hope so.
I would appreciate hearing from some of you 70+ seniors who are making plans for your "next walk".
You're still a "young buck", Kinky, compared to many of us on this forum! You have lots and lots and lots of caminos in your future!I met a 82 years old Norwegian guy in 2011 walking his 4th or 5th Camino. That one was from Le Puy. I just couldn't keep his pace of walking.
Geez, I better be off and start planing. Still 34 years to get there
So should you, Chris
That's what I'm talking about!Ages: 68 in '16, 69 in '17, 70 in '18, '71 in '19
Wonderful!My husband and I walked from SJPDP to Santiago this spring. He was 76, walked every step and carried his own pack. We were home about 2 months before he started asking about other caminos. We will walk the Le Puy next year (he’ll be 77). He says it will be his last camino, but I know better.
I’m 66 next month. Hope we can all look forward to many more caminos!
@Waka, thanks for the encouragement! Yes, retirement is a blessing as it does allow the luxury to lolligag on the Camino need be.I was 70 last year, but remember age is only a number. I still feel healthy and fit most of the time, although I do find getting up off the floor after romping with the grand children an effort sometimes.
I’ll be starting the VDLP in 40 days and my mind is set that I will complete it, all that remains is to explain this to my body.
So please don’t fret about age, you can only do what you can do and as a lot of us are retired we can take as long as we like.
VN, did you say "hip" hip"? Now those words scare me! I think I feel a little twinge already this morning getting out of bed!And I know a Forum member who walked her first camino for her 80th, from SJPP to Santiago.
Hip hip hurrah, and thank you for the inspiration @movinmaggie !
And there are many others. More than 17% of the pilgrims getting compostelas in 2017 were over 60.
Just so you know, Lou, I am a gal.☺ And if I'd laughed that hard at my age I would have peed my pants!Please keep walking sir, us “youngsters” need you along the way. The deepest and most enlightening conversations I had where with people 20 to 35 year older then me. Some of the funniest also, a 78 year old australian union worker almost made me pee my pants. Such a great and funny guy, I hope he made it. He did it twice with his wife, they had to abort because she got injured twice in the same spot. He told me he left her at home this time because he wanted to make it to Santiago. Big man also, real aussie, hard as a brick.
Set off to reach Santiago for my 70th birthday, the first person I met on the climb up to Orisson (and the only person walking slower than me), was an 84-year US doctor and we kept each other company as far as Pamplona. Have been back most seasons since and next year am starting the VDLP.
Love your positive outlook, thank you!Well Chris you say " you are doing good " which sounds to me as if you are in control of some things in your life, but the quote :
" We can't control everything. Sometimes we need to relax and have faith that things will work out " comes to mind.
I am also in your age range, eat fairly healthily and a member of a walking group and I am positive I will still be seeing your many posts about your camino plans and encouragement for others for many, many years to come. Cheers, Mick.
I am now mid 60's in age and started walking caminos in 2015. I've planned a 5-6 week walk each year since then, but wonder in the back of my mind how many more times I will be able to go. After all, each new year at this age going forward becomes a "what if" regarding ailments related to health. I'm still doing good so far, but I fear the day when a potential chronic and debilitating condition would prevent me from doing the long distance walks I love.
I am encouraged when ocassionally various forum members mention their most recent Camino walked and then happen to add in their post, "I was 73 when I walked my camino last year." I love hearing that as it gives me hope that there is possibly the potential to have quite a few more long distance walks in my future...I sure hope so.
I would appreciate hearing from some of you 70+ seniors who are making plans for your "next walk".
in May---Le Puy to Santiago
I just turned 73 and I’m walking part of the Camino in August, 2019. I plan to do quite a bit of training before that but my big concern are my feet which I’ve always had issues with. I’d like to add a question to this thread and that is, what is the best way to care for your feet while walking the Camino?I am now mid 60's in age and started walking caminos in 2015. I've planned a 5-6 week walk each year since then, but wonder in the back of my mind how many more times I will be able to go. After all, each new year at this age going forward becomes a "what if" regarding ailments related to health. I'm still doing good so far, but I fear the day when a potential chronic and debilitating condition would prevent me from doing the long distance walks I love.
I am encouraged when ocassionally various forum members mention their most recent Camino walked and then happen to add in their post, "I was 73 when I walked my camino last year." I love hearing that as it gives me hope that there is possibly the potential to have quite a few more long distance walks in my future...I sure hope so.
I would appreciate hearing from some of you 70+ seniors who are making plans for your "next walk".
Yes Tominrm As I'm not walking very fast - so my plan says 2½ - 3 months - But time will show.Le Puy to Santiago!
Wow, that that would take at least two months!
It's a kind of person to person question. Everybody have ones own idea. For my Part I'am allways using leatherboots and Merino socks. Same boots summer or winther.I just turned 73 and I’m walking part of the Camino in August, 2019. I plan to do quite a bit of training before that but my big concern are my feet which I’ve always had issues with. I’d like to add a question to this thread and that is, what is the best way to care for your feet while walking the Camino?
Well, this time I am planning on about 80 days so I can take my time and enjoy every minute. For all I know it could be my last one!Le Puy to Santiago!
Wow, that that would take at least two months!
I found on my first Camino that walking in trekking sandals (without socks) was so much preferable to trekking shoes that I no longer carry shoes. I am on to my fourth or fifth pair of Source Gobi sandals. If I do find a hot spot I wrap a layer or two of Micropore tape around my foot. I've never had a blister. The sandals are amphibious so I don't worry about rain or streams.I’d like to add a question to this thread and that is, what is the best way to care for your feet while walking the Camino?
Walked our first Camino when I was in my 75 year, my wife in her 56 year. We both are planning to walk again in our 78 and 59 years and then again in our 80 and 61. The camino offers us he chance to be alone with each other and alone with our friend who is with us always. We plan for our caminoes in the faith that he will provide everything that we will need and if we are not suppsed to go we will not. We long to hear the silence of each step, the warmth of his voice and the love of each of his children. God Bless you and thankyou for your post.I am now mid 60's in age and started walking caminos in 2015. I've planned a 5-6 week walk each year since then, but wonder in the back of my mind how many more times I will be able to go. After all, each new year at this age going forward becomes a "what if" regarding ailments related to health. I'm still doing good so far, but I fear the day when a potential chronic and debilitating condition would prevent me from doing the long distance walks I love.
I am encouraged when ocassionally various forum members mention their most recent Camino walked and then happen to add in their post, "I was 73 when I walked my camino last year." I love hearing that as it gives me hope that there is possibly the potential to have quite a few more long distance walks in uture...I sure hope so.
I would appreciate hearing from some of you 70+ seniors who are making plans for your "next walk".
I am now mid 60's in age and started walking caminos in 2015. I've planned a 5-6 week walk each year since then, but wonder in the back of my mind how many more times I will be able to go. After all, each new year at this age going forward becomes a "what if" regarding ailments related to health. I'm still doing good so far, but I fear the day when a potential chronic and debilitating condition would prevent me from doing the long distance walks I love.
I am encouraged when ocassionally various forum members mention their most recent Camino walked and then happen to add in their post, "I was 73 when I walked my camino last year." I love hearing that as it gives me hope that there is possibly the potential to have quite a few more long distance walks in my future...I sure hope so.
I would appreciate hearing from some of you 70+ seniors who are making plans for your "next walk".
Hi Anton, I’ll be about 10 days in front of you, maybe we’ll meet on the road, I’m not a fast walker.Hi there I will join you will arrive in Seville on 11th of February and will walk two or three days later cheers Anton
I was 69 when I walked the CF and have since walked the Portuguese route, the Le Puy-Santiago route, and the route from Arles to Leon (so far). Walking the Camino triggered an interest in medieval history and I am now in the dissertation stage for my PhD having claimed my MA at the age of 77 this past May. I see no reason to stop walking Caminos andplan my next to start in Vezelay, though grad school takes up a lot of time.I am now mid 60's in age and started walking caminos in 2015. I've planned a 5-6 week walk each year since then, but wonder in the back of my mind how many more times I will be able to go. After all, each new year at this age going forward becomes a "what if" regarding ailments related to health. I'm still doing good so far, but I fear the day when a potential chronic and debilitating condition would prevent me from doing the long distance walks I love.
I am encouraged when ocassionally various forum members mention their most recent Camino walked and then happen to add in their post, "I was 73 when I walked my camino last year." I love hearing that as it gives me hope that there is possibly the potential to have quite a few more long distance walks in my future...I sure hope so.
I would appreciate hearing from some of you 70+ seniors who are making plans for your "next walk".
I am 74 and will begin walking the Camino in the Spring 2019. My wife walked the Camino two years ago, and her trek inspired me after many years in the law and government service to do my own Camino as a way of paying homage to my family and others in my life who are important to me. I'll be traveling on two recently replaced knees, a hip replacement, and some pulmonary problems. That said, what better way to make use of all this hardware than to walk across the top of Spain in springtime? I'm really looking forward to this trek.I am now mid 60's in age and started walking caminos in 2015. I've planned a 5-6 week walk each year since then, but wonder in the back of my mind how many more times I will be able to go. After all, each new year at this age going forward becomes a "what if" regarding ailments related to health. I'm still doing good so far, but I fear the day when a potential chronic and debilitating condition would prevent me from doing the long distance walks I love.
I am encouraged when ocassionally various forum members mention their most recent Camino walked and then happen to add in their post, "I was 73 when I walked my camino last year." I love hearing that as it gives me hope that there is possibly the potential to have quite a few more long distance walks in my future...I sure hope so.
I would appreciate hearing from some of you 70+ seniors who are making plans for your "next walk".
I will walk the Camino Frances for the 3rd time in 2020 to celebrate my 75th birthday. Preparation, not fears, should see you through.I am now mid 60's in age and started walking caminos in 2015. I've planned a 5-6 week walk each year since then, but wonder in the back of my mind how many more times I will be able to go. After all, each new year at this age going forward becomes a "what if" regarding ailments related to health. I'm still doing good so far, but I fear the day when a potential chronic and debilitating condition would prevent me from doing the long distance walks I love.
I am encouraged when ocassionally various forum members mention their most recent Camino walked and then happen to add in their post, "I was 73 when I walked my camino last year." I love hearing that as it gives me hope that there is possibly the potential to have quite a few more long distance walks in my future...I sure hope so.
I would appreciate hearing from some of you 70+ seniors who are making plans for your "next walk".
I am now mid 60's in age and started walking caminos in 2015. I've planned a 5-6 week walk each year since then, but wonder in the back of my mind how many more times I will be able to go. After all, each new year at this age going forward becomes a "what if" regarding ailments related to health. I'm still doing good so far, but I fear the day when a potential chronic and debilitating condition would prevent me from doing the long distance walks I love.
I am encouraged when ocassionally various forum members mention their most recent Camino walked and then happen to add in their post, "I was 73 when I walked my camino last year." I love hearing that as it gives me hope that there is possibly the potential to have quite a few more long distance walks in my future...I sure hope so.
I would appreciate hearing from some of you 70+ seniors who are making plans for your "next walk".
It's probably better to start a new thread or add onto a related one. For example, here are two threads - this one and this one - you might read through, to see the huge range of opinions and suggestions, and then add any additional questions. I found those threads by putting "foot care" in the search field at the upper right, and then scrolling through to the second page of results. Good luck with your feet - they are important!!I’d like to add a question to this thread and that is, what is the best way to care for your feet while walking the Camino?
I am a youngster in this category.
Please keep walking sir, us “youngsters” need you along the way. .... Such a great and funny guy, I hope he made it. He did it twice with his wife, they had to abort because she got injured twice in the same spot. He told me he left her at home this time because he wanted to make it to Santiago. Big man also, real aussie, hard as a brick.
I am now mid 60's in age and started walking caminos in 2015. I've planned a 5-6 week walk each year since then, but wonder in the back of my mind how many more times I will be able to go. After all, each new year at this age going forward becomes a "what if" regarding ailments related to health. I'm still doing good so far, but I fear the day when a potential chronic and debilitating condition would prevent me from doing the long distance walks I love.
I am encouraged when ocassionally various forum members mention their most recent Camino walked and then happen to add in their post, "I was 73 when I walked my camino last year." I love hearing that as it gives me hope that there is possibly the potential to have quite a few more long distance walks in my future...I sure hope so.
I would appreciate hearing from some of you 70+ seniors who are making plans for your "next walk".
I am now mid 60's in age and started walking caminos in 2015. I've planned a 5-6 week walk each year since then, but wonder in the back of my mind how many more times I will be able to go. After all, each new year at this age going forward becomes a "what if" regarding ailments related to health. I'm still doing good so far, but I fear the day when a potential chronic and debilitating condition would prevent me from doing the long distance walks I love.
I am encouraged when ocassionally various forum members mention their most recent Camino walked and then happen to add in their post, "I was 73 when I walked my camino last year." I love hearing that as it gives me hope that there is possibly the potential to have quite a few more long distance walks in my future...I sure hope so.
I would appreciate hearing from some of you 70+ seniors who are making plans for your "next walk".
I am now mid 60's in age and started walking caminos in 2015. I've planned a 5-6 week walk each year since then, but wonder in the back of my mind how many more times I will be able to go. After all, each new year at this age going forward becomes a "what if" regarding ailments related to health. I'm still doing good so far, but I fear the day when a potential chronic and debilitating condition would prevent me from doing the long distance walks I love.
I am encouraged when ocassionally various forum members mention their most recent Camino walked and then happen to add in their post, "I was 73 when I walked my camino last year." I love hearing that as it gives me hope that there is possibly the potential to have quite a few more long distance walks in my future...I sure hope so.
I would appreciate hearing from some of you 70+ seniors who are making plans for your "next walk".
I will check out your blog and I might add that your upcoming solo camino starts on my birthday!My next camino (going solo) starts on April 19, 2019. Excited already! Check out our 2015 camino and ideas about my second one: www.throughourlookingglass.ca.
Me too!...and Ivar needs to install a 'LOVE' button!Wonderful responses. I 'like' them all.
Camino Chris,I am now mid 60's in age and started walking caminos in 2015 as soon as I retired (having seen "The Way" the year prior to that). I've planned a 5-6 week walk each year since then, but wonder in the back of my mind how many more times I will be able to go. After all, each new year at this age going forward becomes a "what if" regarding ailments related to health. I'm still doing good so far, but I fear the day when a potential chronic and debilitating condition would prevent me from doing the long distance walks I love.
I am encouraged when ocassionally various forum members mention their most recent Camino walked and then happen to add in their post, "I was 73 when I walked my camino last year." I love hearing that as it gives me hope that there is possibly the potential to have quite a few more long distance walks in my future...I sure hope so.
I would appreciate hearing from some of you 70+ seniors who are making plans for your "next walk".
"Buen Camino, Joseph!" My plan is to walk the Camino Primitivo from Oviedo on May 13th at the age of 73. Maybe I'll see you on the trail.Well, I guess you got lots of responses to this! I love them. I walked the Francés last year as I was moving out of my 74th year. Every step of it and carrying everything myself. It was such an amazing experience for me that I have booked my tickets for the Camino Primitivo in May. Before that I will do two volunteer stints, one in Santiago at the Oficina de Peregrinos and the other in St Jean Pied de Port. And by then I will be 76. Trepidations? Yes, definitely. But I have such a desire to do it and love the volunteer work. I will listen to my body and be reasonable which is not always easy, but I will do it. So glad to read all of this!
Just so you know, Lou, I am a gal.☺ And if I'd laughed that hard at my age I would have peed my pants!
Walking from Le Puy, a farmer had put out a table, chairs,pitcher of water, pitcher of fruit juice, for any passing Pilgrims. So, we stopped to enjoy his generosity. The farmer came and asked the usual question, how far have you walked? I told him how many kilometers, but added that at my age (76 yrs) I didn't know how long I could keep doing it. His wise response was, "Don't worry about how long you may do it, you are doing it now. Just enjoy the now." Since Then I have done two other Camino's and the Italian "Way of St. Francis." Now, 80 yrs I lead hikes all summer in the Sierra Nevada Mtns., and I am planning for the European Peace Walk in May. Obviously, at some point Father Time will invite me onto a different Camino, but until then Walk ON!I am now mid 60's in age and started walking caminos in 2015 as soon as I retired (having seen "The Way" the year prior to that). I've planned a 5-6 week walk each year since then, but wonder in the back of my mind how many more times I will be able to go. After all, each new year at this age going forward becomes a "what if" regarding ailments related to health. I'm still doing good so far, but I fear the day when a potential chronic and debilitating condition would prevent me from doing the long distance walks I love.
I am encouraged when ocassionally various forum members mention their most recent Camino walked and then happen to add in their post, "I was 73 when I walked my camino last year." I love hearing that as it gives me hope that there is possibly the potential to have quite a few more long distance walks in my future...I sure hope so.
I would appreciate hearing from some of you 70+ seniors who are making plans for your "next walk".
Hello, my name is Thomas and I have traveled to Spain from Maine in the US every summer for the past 6 years. I walked the Camino Frances from SJPDP to Santiago in 2013 at the age of 73. In 2014 from Pau in France to Pamplona at 74 on the Camino Aragon, In 2015 I decided to section hike a part of the Senda Pirenaica, the Spanish GR11 which runs across the Pyrenees from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean at 75. 2016 and in 2017, I went back to the GR11 for more section hikes of the Pyrenees at 76 & 77. This past spring I started walking the Camino del Norte in Irun at 78, however while walking through a vineyard on my 5th day walking I got dosed with a c,loud of agricultural spray and within 3 days developed severe pneumonia/lung infection. I caught the train from Deba to Bilbao and flew home. I'm planning to begin again from Deba in September and finish this possibly my last Camino at 79. God willing I will turn 80 while walking the Camino this coming autumn.
No apology is necessary!Oops, Im sorry madam, didnt know Chris was an abreviation
Before knowing about the forum, when i was researching how possible it might be for an oldie to walk ‘the camino’, i had the good fortune to come across mspath. I devoured your blogs, Margaret, and since joining the forum I always marvel at how promptly, gracefully and succinctly you respond to requests for information. I didn’t qualify as a real oldie then, but I do now. And yes, it is still on the horizon to walk some more."...What then? shall we sit idly down and say the night has come; it is no longer day? The night hath not yet come;
...For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."
Morituri Salutamus,
1875, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From 2004 at 65 through 2015 at 75 I walked the Camino Frances eleven times often alone in autumn and winter.
Fulfilling a dream held since university days, at 65 I first set out. I, too, wanted to experience what so many had done across time and to see what had been built along the way while pondering the myths and ghosts of history. As most pilgrims do I discovered this endeavor to be hardly a walk in the park, but a unique mix of contemporary mundane chance and historic legend. When exhausted for courage I would remember one of the timeless adages associated with the Camino, "if a pilgrim makes it to the city of Burgos, he can make it to Santiago!"
Kindnesses of strangers along the way offering smiles, water, conversation, help and hospitality were a constant support. After walking two months when I first arrived at Santiago de Compostela in 2004 seeing at last the great cathedral, touching the hallowed stones, and weeping with joy as the great bells tolled were special thrills. Overwhelmed with emotion I silently gave thanks for all that had passed. Later when sorting memories and souvenirs, I slowly began to realize that my mind and heart had been deeply changed by this journey. Thus, I decided to try to return.
And so I have, eleven times.
Each Camino has begun with both anticipation and trepidation. As always I wondered how it all will go. My reasons include non-traditional spiritual ones giving thanks for each day lived and for my life with Bill which enabled such a journey. Walking alone day after day I pondered varied aspects of the thousand-year history of this beloved route as well as recalled several quotations which help define my personal creed. "But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity...I will walk in liberty for I seek thy precepts. " Psalm 26:11 and 119:45.
" No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. " Buddha
For those who asked why another Camino?
One answer was " le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît pas/ the heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing. " Pascal,
Les Pensées
Unfortunately mid-route 2015 after a fall when it was no longer possible to easily stand or walk my camino ceased; the sad, inevitable moment had come for me to stop. I reached the end of my trail....
Now as age (79) and time take their further toll hopefully my precious memories will endure as long as I. Physically I may not be walking, but sentimentally I will always "wear" my pilgrim shell.
Sincerely grateful for all the happiness that I have found and shared along the way during these past years I wish only the best for the future of this beloved route. Might all who walk find fulfillment.
I was 70 when I walked the CF from SJPP to Santiago, 71 when I walked the Caminho da Fe in Brazil, and hope to walk the Camino Portugues in 2019 at age 72 (“God willing of course”.I am now mid 60's in age and started walking caminos in 2015 as soon as I retired (having seen "The Way" the year prior to that). I've planned a 5-6 week walk each year since then, but wonder in the back of my mind how many more times I will be able to go. After all, each new year at this age going forward becomes a "what if" regarding ailments related to health. I'm still doing good so far, but I fear the day when a potential chronic and debilitating condition would prevent me from doing the long distance walks I love.
I am encouraged when ocassionally various forum members mention their most recent Camino walked and then happen to add in their post, "I was 73 when I walked my camino last year." I love hearing that as it gives me hope that there is possibly the potential to have quite a few more long distance walks in my future...I sure hope so.
I would appreciate hearing from some of you 70+ seniors who are making plans for your "next walk".
Last year at age 75 I started alone in SJPP and finished in Santiago 33 days later. Carried my pack and trekked every frigging inch (EFI). A wonderful experience, even better than my other two Caminos. Being alone, I was able to easily meet others from around the globe.
I am now mid 60's in age and started walking caminos in 2015 as soon as I retired (having seen "The Way" the year prior to that). I've planned a 5-6 week walk each year since then, but wonder in the back of my mind how many more times I will be able to go. After all, each new year at this age going forward becomes a "what if" regarding ailments related to health. I'm still doing good so far, but I fear the day when a potential chronic and debilitating condition would prevent me from doing the long distance walks I love.
I am encouraged when ocassionally various forum members mention their most recent Camino walked and then happen to add in their post, "I was 73 when I walked my camino last year." I love hearing that as it gives me hope that there is possibly the potential to have quite a few more long distance walks in my future...I sure hope so.
I would appreciate hearing from some of you 70+ seniors who are making plans for your "next walk".
I am now mid 60's in age and started walking caminos in 2015 as soon as I retired (having seen "The Way" the year prior to that). I've planned a 5-6 week walk each year since then, but wonder in the back of my mind how many more times I will be able to go. After all, each new year at this age going forward becomes a "what if" regarding ailments related to health. I'm still doing good so far, but I fear the day when a potential chronic and debilitating condition would prevent me from doing the long distance walks I love.
I am encouraged when ocassionally various forum members mention their most recent Camino walked and then happen to add in their post, "I was 73 when I walked my camino last year." I love hearing that as it gives me hope that there is possibly the potential to have quite a few more long distance walks in my future...I sure hope so.
I would appreciate hearing from some of you 70+ seniors who are making plans for your "next walk".
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