Peter CapeTown
Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- 2018 CF Spring
Considering doing a Camino in 2018. If I do it, I properly would do the CF, starting early/mid-April’18 till mid/late-May.
I heard about the Camino de Santiago via my mother who is planning to walk it – but continuously postponing it. So I wanted to help & motivate my mom. Started to read up on it, ordered her 4 Camino books, and started telling her: “Hey, you really must do this!” And now I am thinking to myself: “This is something I would like to do too!?!” Now I am reeeeally keen…
Researching it, early planning stage, nearly finished reading one of the CF guide books, dropping hints to my better-half…
My main motivation would be: do simple and self-reliant traveling, some solitude (yes, I know, CF… – it’s all relative). Also wanting to let my body sweat a bit, and my soul and mind can do some sweating too.
Biggest hurdles:
1) Family and leaving them for 5 weeks. While I know that it might be very healthy to spend some time apart – It still will be hard. My wife is very understanding of me going off doing some adventures or projects. But 5 weeks would be the longest apart yet.
2) I own and manage a small business and work from a home-office. Not easy to let them operate alone for such a long time. Have good staff, so should be fine. Hey, what could go wrong . . . ;-)
Equipment, footwear, strategy, etc. – this forum has been very helpful (despite some understandable venting), plus have my own equipment and experience from similar activities, which should be useful.
What I don’t want: I am not looking “to find myself”, nor to have a profound life-changing religious experience, or to have the “best adventure ever”. This would just be a gift I give myself.
If (IF!) I do this, I would like to do it with the mind-set of a simple traveller/pilgrim (its relative). Depart on foot from my house carrying a half-full rucksack, and somehow make my way to my local airport (Cape Town) and catch a booked flight to BIQ. No pre-booked accommodation along the Camino; just see how one progresses. Allow myself to be open to this experience.
Purchasing the air ticket would be the deciding step.
I heard about the Camino de Santiago via my mother who is planning to walk it – but continuously postponing it. So I wanted to help & motivate my mom. Started to read up on it, ordered her 4 Camino books, and started telling her: “Hey, you really must do this!” And now I am thinking to myself: “This is something I would like to do too!?!” Now I am reeeeally keen…
Researching it, early planning stage, nearly finished reading one of the CF guide books, dropping hints to my better-half…
My main motivation would be: do simple and self-reliant traveling, some solitude (yes, I know, CF… – it’s all relative). Also wanting to let my body sweat a bit, and my soul and mind can do some sweating too.
Biggest hurdles:
1) Family and leaving them for 5 weeks. While I know that it might be very healthy to spend some time apart – It still will be hard. My wife is very understanding of me going off doing some adventures or projects. But 5 weeks would be the longest apart yet.
2) I own and manage a small business and work from a home-office. Not easy to let them operate alone for such a long time. Have good staff, so should be fine. Hey, what could go wrong . . . ;-)
Equipment, footwear, strategy, etc. – this forum has been very helpful (despite some understandable venting), plus have my own equipment and experience from similar activities, which should be useful.
What I don’t want: I am not looking “to find myself”, nor to have a profound life-changing religious experience, or to have the “best adventure ever”. This would just be a gift I give myself.
If (IF!) I do this, I would like to do it with the mind-set of a simple traveller/pilgrim (its relative). Depart on foot from my house carrying a half-full rucksack, and somehow make my way to my local airport (Cape Town) and catch a booked flight to BIQ. No pre-booked accommodation along the Camino; just see how one progresses. Allow myself to be open to this experience.
Purchasing the air ticket would be the deciding step.