- Time of past OR future Camino
- CF 2023 from Bayonne.
Camino Podiensis & CF 2026
Hello everyone ,
2021 has given me renewed hope and resolve to keep at it. This last year has tested my strength in so many different aspects of my life. Determination waned but remained.
I must forge ahead and believe that my 20+ year dream to walk my first Camino (the Frances) will happen in the near future, hopefully by 2022. Was all set to fly out April 2nd 2020 but soon realized in January of that year that this pandemic would not only change the course of my little life but our entire world.
Blessed am I to still be healthy at 64, that no one in my family has suffered through Covid or that anyone close to me has died from it. Sadly, millions of others, including members of this forum, have not been so lucky. I have a new granddaughter I have yet to meet, she is two months old now. Although I live only two hours away, I am still oh so far due to Covid restrictions and lockdowns. Yet still...how blessed am I!
This morning, I was looking for my Sandisk iPhone backup stick that was packed with my Camino gear. Going through my box, it brought back such fond memories of my year long preparations for 2020. Seeing my med kit, ready for anything, my sunhat and pilgrim passport standing by...well it fired up my internal flame and resolve. My training with my pack will resume in the spring, whilst I do other training this winter. I can be more prepared by focusing on learning Spanish again and this time, not give up and staying committed.
Surely my Camino will not be experienced in the same way forum members have experienced it in the past and so lovingly described in this forum. The various Camino routes are more well known (especially the Frances) and this attracts modern changes to its infrastructure and now medical and wellness ones as well. I’m OK with that. I have nothing to compare my first Camino to and perhaps this is a blessing in and of itself.
The many videos viewed on YouTube from vloggers may not be the same experiences I get to have but one thing will not change: the heart stopping views of the Spanish landscape, the kindness of strangers and villagers, the time and stillness to contemplate and pray, the sounds and smells of nature, the magnificence of sunrises and sunsets, the feel of squishy rain in my shoes and the warmth of the sun on my face. The Camino awaits.
I will get there...hope lives on.
Dani
2021 has given me renewed hope and resolve to keep at it. This last year has tested my strength in so many different aspects of my life. Determination waned but remained.
I must forge ahead and believe that my 20+ year dream to walk my first Camino (the Frances) will happen in the near future, hopefully by 2022. Was all set to fly out April 2nd 2020 but soon realized in January of that year that this pandemic would not only change the course of my little life but our entire world.
Blessed am I to still be healthy at 64, that no one in my family has suffered through Covid or that anyone close to me has died from it. Sadly, millions of others, including members of this forum, have not been so lucky. I have a new granddaughter I have yet to meet, she is two months old now. Although I live only two hours away, I am still oh so far due to Covid restrictions and lockdowns. Yet still...how blessed am I!
This morning, I was looking for my Sandisk iPhone backup stick that was packed with my Camino gear. Going through my box, it brought back such fond memories of my year long preparations for 2020. Seeing my med kit, ready for anything, my sunhat and pilgrim passport standing by...well it fired up my internal flame and resolve. My training with my pack will resume in the spring, whilst I do other training this winter. I can be more prepared by focusing on learning Spanish again and this time, not give up and staying committed.
Surely my Camino will not be experienced in the same way forum members have experienced it in the past and so lovingly described in this forum. The various Camino routes are more well known (especially the Frances) and this attracts modern changes to its infrastructure and now medical and wellness ones as well. I’m OK with that. I have nothing to compare my first Camino to and perhaps this is a blessing in and of itself.
The many videos viewed on YouTube from vloggers may not be the same experiences I get to have but one thing will not change: the heart stopping views of the Spanish landscape, the kindness of strangers and villagers, the time and stillness to contemplate and pray, the sounds and smells of nature, the magnificence of sunrises and sunsets, the feel of squishy rain in my shoes and the warmth of the sun on my face. The Camino awaits.
I will get there...hope lives on.
Dani
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