Rambler
Active Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- June 2008 Camino Frances with Daughter, 2014 Camino Frances with Son
I wanted to introduce myself as this section suggests and tell you all how happy I was to find this Forum for help in our Camino planning. My name is Rambler and my daughter and I have been planning to walk the Camino for the last several years. We are from the US (Atlanta) and learned of the Camino years ago while visiting my wife's relatives in Spain. Her mother was from Madrid and we were told of the Pilgrimage by her aunt and uncle.
We are avid hikers and have over the last few years always tried to take a few days to a week in the summer to go hiking here on the Appalachian Trail. Needless to say, the Camino Frances had a certain appeal in it being a long distance hike in the land of our family's ancestors.
We are a Catholic family also and see this as a true pilgrimage opportunity to grow spiritually and strengthen our father-daughter relationship even more.
Work obligations will only allow me to take 3 weeks at most off to do this trip, so we are looking at how to make the most of this and have the best experience possible.
Plans are to go in the June/July 2008 timeframe, but all is flexible right now.
We are currently in the reading stage, buying books and begining to think about what we need to do. We are less concerned about the actual hiking part (prep of feet and how to pack, etc.) because we think we are used to longer distance hiking.
The things I am most interested in now are:
:?: What start stop route should we do? With 21 days we cannot walk the whole Camino Frances. Do we try and bike it, or just walk a subset?
:?: How do I keep my highschooler interested and enthusiastic about the trip and its planning? Are there books that you would recommend to her that would be written more to appeal to young adults? Things she can do apart from me to prepare herself for the trip? I am a natural planner/geary so I love the day by day planning. But she is less focussed on that and I want her to have her role also in making this trip a reality.
:?: What should we do to keep some spiritual (Catholic) focus to our trip? I understand there are masses in many of the towns for pilgrims. Does anyone have suggestions on what we should plan to enhance this portion?
:?: Given the time constraint, how do we keep this from being a forced march?
I just wanted to say hello and that I look forward to gleaning words of wisdom from the many pelegrinos here on this forum. Hopefully some of our paths will pass next year in Spain and we will be able to share our experiences.
Rambler
We are avid hikers and have over the last few years always tried to take a few days to a week in the summer to go hiking here on the Appalachian Trail. Needless to say, the Camino Frances had a certain appeal in it being a long distance hike in the land of our family's ancestors.
We are a Catholic family also and see this as a true pilgrimage opportunity to grow spiritually and strengthen our father-daughter relationship even more.
Work obligations will only allow me to take 3 weeks at most off to do this trip, so we are looking at how to make the most of this and have the best experience possible.
Plans are to go in the June/July 2008 timeframe, but all is flexible right now.
We are currently in the reading stage, buying books and begining to think about what we need to do. We are less concerned about the actual hiking part (prep of feet and how to pack, etc.) because we think we are used to longer distance hiking.
The things I am most interested in now are:
:?: What start stop route should we do? With 21 days we cannot walk the whole Camino Frances. Do we try and bike it, or just walk a subset?
:?: How do I keep my highschooler interested and enthusiastic about the trip and its planning? Are there books that you would recommend to her that would be written more to appeal to young adults? Things she can do apart from me to prepare herself for the trip? I am a natural planner/geary so I love the day by day planning. But she is less focussed on that and I want her to have her role also in making this trip a reality.
:?: What should we do to keep some spiritual (Catholic) focus to our trip? I understand there are masses in many of the towns for pilgrims. Does anyone have suggestions on what we should plan to enhance this portion?
:?: Given the time constraint, how do we keep this from being a forced march?
I just wanted to say hello and that I look forward to gleaning words of wisdom from the many pelegrinos here on this forum. Hopefully some of our paths will pass next year in Spain and we will be able to share our experiences.
Rambler