Thank you to all for your words of encouragement and personal tales.
I'm not sure if I'll make it to celebrate a 50th anniversary on the Camino though. At 93 it may be beyond my physical capabilities. You never know though, staying fit by walking Caminos and having a lot of that Spanish olive oil in our diet may just be the recipe to a long and healthy life. I'll just have to remember not to order the Pilgrims' Menu each night for dinner
, but that glass of red I'm told is also good for the body and soul.
I wonder what the Camino will be like in 50 years???
Perhaps we'll have bed bug scanner apps on our smart phones that "zap" them through ultrasonic waves.
Maybe the Albergues on the Frances will resemble Japanese capsule hotels, stacked in rows 6 levels high?
Maybe Sarria will be moved to Leon and the minimum distance required for a Compostella will be increased?
Perhaps the Botafumerio will be swinging in SdC every day?
Maybe the cellos will need to be scanned into a digital credential every day at the Albergue and the entire journey tracked via GPS? (I do use a smart phone primarily as a camera but this is going too far!)
Maybe you can active the SnoreBuddy app and rate the noise level of snoring at nights in the Albergues?
Perhaps anything digital will be abandoned due to tech overload and people will be taking real cameras with real film that needs to be developed, hence putting more thought into what it is they're taking photos of in the first place?
The mind boggles as to what the future holds for us.
Buen Camino,
The German