Rafiki & Travlr
New Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Camino Francés (Sep./Oct. 2014)
Camino Portugués (Oct. 2018)
Greetings one and all! Rafiki (Richard) and Travlr (Marla) here. We've been reading and learning from this forum for some time now and have finally decided to join in. We plan to begin our camino in St. Jean Pied de Port on September 18, 2014 and, if all goes reasonably well, hope to arrive in Santiago de Compostela on or around October 24th.
This all began innocently enough, as we're sure it did for a number of you, after watching the movie The Way*. Prior to that time we had not even heard of the Camino de Santiago. We walked out of the theater that evening both thinking that walking the camino would be something we'd like to do someday. The vague notion of "doing it someday" started to grow into more of a desire to do it sooner rather than later. Before long, we got to the point where we felt we simply had to go. And, now, here we are. Airline tickets have been purchased, gear is being accumulated, training walks are under way and we're going through the apparently normal vacillation between excitement and apprehension.
So here's to the journey. Not only ours, but all of yours. Buen camino!
(* Now, officially, the most "expensive" movie we've ever watched. )
This all began innocently enough, as we're sure it did for a number of you, after watching the movie The Way*. Prior to that time we had not even heard of the Camino de Santiago. We walked out of the theater that evening both thinking that walking the camino would be something we'd like to do someday. The vague notion of "doing it someday" started to grow into more of a desire to do it sooner rather than later. Before long, we got to the point where we felt we simply had to go. And, now, here we are. Airline tickets have been purchased, gear is being accumulated, training walks are under way and we're going through the apparently normal vacillation between excitement and apprehension.
So here's to the journey. Not only ours, but all of yours. Buen camino!
(* Now, officially, the most "expensive" movie we've ever watched. )