Nicole Fecteau
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- October/November 2017
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Undertaking the Camino and following one of the routes on a motorcycle will be seen by many as two mutually exclusive things. Certainly such an endeavour would not be recognized by the Pilgrims Office for the issue of a credential nor would it quality for the Compostela or distance certificates.I am planning my 1st Camino and need to find the best "non-highway" route to Santiago for a motorcycle. The plan is to depart St Jean Pied du Port and do up to 60 miles each day. I need to find the quiet roads less traveled and places to stay that are respectful of the journey by motorcycle. Is there anyone who has done the Camino this way?
...That is a commercial decision, and will not be a matter of being 'respectful of the journey by motorcycle' - don't expect that from any of the pilgrims travelling on foot, bicycle or on horseback, or from those albergues that are exclusively for pilgrims. You just won't be seen as a pilgrim in the context of the Camino, irrespective of any personal motivations you might have for such a journey.
Somewhere on YouTube there's an interview with Martin Sheen and his son Emilio Esteves about their movie "The Way". A question from the audience to Martin Sheen was " Did you walk the Camino?" He laughed his big generous laugh and admitted sheepishly "I'm an American. We rented a car and..." Much laughter.I am planning my 1st Camino and need to find the best "non-highway" route to Santiago for a motorcycle. The plan is to depart St Jean Pied du Port and do up to 60 miles each day. I need to find the quiet roads less traveled and places to stay that are respectful of the journey by motorcycle. Is there anyone who has done the Camino this way?
I know it was thrown out there as advice on this thread, but I would say stay off the actual Camino trail while riding a motorcycle. Stick to the roads. I love bikes, but honestly they have no place on the actual footpath for pilgrims. Hell, bicycles are barely tolerable on it, and I love riding mountain bikes.
Yeah, ditto on the bicycles. It would be great if the walkers didn't have to share the path with them. Sorry if that offends any Camino bicyclists, or future ones out there. It's just that they could be so invasive to the walkers at times, barreling down at high speed, at times dangerously weaving through groups of pilgrims. Also in some sections they rut up the walking path, and when it rains it turns into a muddy mess. Good example is after SJPdP just before you get to Roncesvalles. The section through the woods.Sounded like he didn't intend to ride on the footpath. Personally, I wish bicycles didn't travel on the path, either. Last year, I looked for some way to rent a motorcycle one-way from Santiago back to Madrid, but couldn't find a way to do it.
Yeah, ditto on the bicycles. It would be great if the walkers didn't have to share the path with them. Sorry if that offends any Camino bicyclists, or future ones out there. It's just that they could be so invasive to the walkers at times, barreling down at high speed, at times dangerously weaving through groups of pilgrims. Also in some sections they rut up the walking path, and when it rains it turns into a muddy mess. Good example is after SJPdP just before you get to Roncesvalles. The section through the woods.
Hi Nicole,I am planning my 1st Camino and need to find the best "non-highway" route to Santiago for a motorcycle. The plan is to depart St Jean Pied du Port and do up to 60 miles each day. I need to find the quiet roads less traveled and places to stay that are respectful of the journey by motorcycle. Is there anyone who has done the Camino this way?
Hell, bicycles are barely tolerable on it
Gee you are being a bit tough on us cyclists - not ALL of us deserve this "tarred with the one brush" approach. I cycled much of the walking Camino in Sept 2015 - I used my bell; called out when I was passing; even stopped riding & walked when it was not safe (for me and the walkers).In that downhill section through the woods before Roncesvalles is where I saw a bicyclist collide into the back of a walker. I was almost hit by bicycles several times along the Camino, too.
Napoleanic trail
Gee you are being a bit tough on us cyclists - not ALL of us deserve this "tarred with the one brush" approach. I cycled much of the walking Camino in Sept 2015 - I used my bell; called out when I was passing; even stopped riding & walked when it was not safe (for me and the walkers).
As for riding a bike on the Napoleanic trail - I would call that *&^%$*& (not for Forum eyes/ears). Cheers
I have no problem at all with cyclists who understand that on a walking path walkers have precedence. I like them, in fact. So thank you, Mike, for your courtesy.not ALL of us deserve this "tarred with the one brush" approach. I cycled much of the walking Camino in Sept 2015 - I used my bell; called out when I was passing; even stopped riding & walked when it was not safe (for me and the walkers).
Gee you are being a bit tough on us cyclists - not ALL of us deserve this "tarred with the one brush" approach. I cycled much of the walking Camino in Sept 2015 - I used my bell; called out when I was passing; even stopped riding & walked when it was not safe (for me and the walkers).
As for riding a bike on the Napoleanic trail - I would call that *&^%$*& (not for Forum eyes/ears). Cheers
Not a problem - oh and BTW - since I don't have ear pieces shoved into my ears I can usually hear a cyclist approaching and I also keep a watchful eye on both overtaking cyclists and walking pilgrims - who also push past on narrow sections of the track.Obviously a true saint and unique amongst cyclists. Could you come back and give us your views on cyclists after you've walked the camino in May?
Not a problem - oh and BTW - since I don't have ear pieces shoved into my ears I can usually hear a cyclist approaching and I also keep a watchful eye on both overtaking cyclists and walking pilgrims - who also push past on narrow sections of the track.
Not a problem - oh and BTW - since I don't have ear pieces shoved into my ears I can usually hear a cyclist approaching and I also keep a watchful eye on both overtaking cyclists and walking pilgrims - who also push past on narrow sections of the track.
I am planning my 1st Camino and need to find the best "non-highway" route to Santiago for a motorcycle. The plan is to depart St Jean Pied du Port and do up to 60 miles each day. I need to find the quiet roads less traveled and places to stay that are respectful of the journey by motorcycle. Is there anyone who has done the Camino this way?
Good for you! I was a bit worried it was a "mid-life crisis" thing but since you haven't mentioned Harleys or Goldwings . . . .All very good points Jeff. My energies are limited and pottering around the countryside and local roads sounds like bliss to me. I'll probably choose to get coffees when I'm not with my partner and maybe even do a bit or writing: something else that floats my boat. I am quite senior as bikers go, in my sixties, although I haven't ridden through France for thirty years. I'm on a large (BMW) sports touring bike now and plan to tow it all the way down to northern Spain on the back of a big estate car; although to be honest my wife will do most of the driving. The ME troubles me less than it used to, and in my positive moments, like today, I still manage to tear around the countryside in much the same way as did when I were a lad. It might be a pipe-dream, but until events make such a thing impossible, I'm going to try to fulfil the dream.
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