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Welcome. We were all new here at some time. Take your time. Read the threads and absorb the wealth of information there (some conflicting because there is no right to anything). You have plenty of time to prepare. Research, research and research and enjoy doing so before you buy anything. Ask advice if you can't find an answer and the lovely people here will help as best they can. Above all remember this - your boots and your pack are your best friends. Like your best friends choose them well, making sure they are the right friends for you who will treat you well and not let you down. In return you must also look after them as much as they do you. OK so that's your best friends so what about your enemy? Weight! Weight! Weight! Along with trying to walk to far to soon. Enjoy the forum.
Hello Dan, welcome to the forum you are doing the right thing planning early and giving yourself plenty of time to decide and to ask questions .This is where your camino starts so welcome pilgrim
Yes, welcome Dan, as wayfarer says "someone will have the answer".....Welcome Dan, ask anything, someone will have the answer.
Buen Camino.
Shalom Dan and Greetings from Jerusalem!
Physical fitness is a very good idea but you don't have to be a Green Beret to walk the Camino so don't over-focus on your femur muscles, plenty of couch potatoes (me for example) have made it to Santiago despite age and several decades of cigarettes (thankfully discarded long ago). Enjoy the forum, a lot of good information here and a lot of fun! I would recommend also that in your preparations you include a bit of reading – some history of the areas you will be crossing-they weren't always Spain, a bit of art and architecture since you will be observing treasures of each, how is your Spanish? Fort Worth is a good bilingual place you probably already have more than enough. Practicalities are a first focus but prepare yourself for an experience which might change your perspectives and opinions on many things spiritual and personal. 850 kilometers will give you plenty of time to make new friends and to enjoy the camaraderie of people sharing similar experiences towards a common goal but also a unique opportunity for introspection, to think, a walking form of meditation if you will, to resolve issues not yet tied down, memories will suddenly pop up to make you happy or to haunt as well as a chance to review much which you have thought to be resolved long ago. So go ahead and train, be fit, but be aware, that's the easy part of the Camino-there is a lot more waiting for you if you will allow it to happen.
Hello Dan. I am also new but has already done a lot of reading here and gathered lots of useful info from this forum (so glad I joined!). Everybody seems always ready to help and give good advice. So prepare yourselves, all you helpful members, I'll be asking lots of questions and seeking loads of advice from you! We, my husband and I, have done the Camino Frances in 2008 and I have promised myself that I'll be back. It was such a wonderful, rewarding experience. We would have been back sooner, but the exchange rate of our SA Rand is so poor against the Euro, we have to wait for at least 4 to 5 years to save up enough money! Enough saved up now, planning for next year Aug/Sept ...............WooooHoooo!!! Although a few years older now, we still have enough stamina left, God willing! So...........let's plan, Dan!I need as much info as can to get ready for my walk next year!!! I am planning doing it by the end of july or August.... I am planning to take a month off from work. I hope to complete
it in time..
Hello Dan. I am also new but has already done a lot of reading here and gathered lots of useful info from this forum (so glad I joined!). Everybody seems always ready to help and give good advice. So prepare yourselves, all you helpful members, I'll be asking lots of questions and seeking loads of advice from you! We, my husband and I, have done the Camino Frances in 2008 and I have promised myself that I'll be back. It was such a wonderful, rewarding experience. We would have been back sooner but the exchange rate of our SA Rand is so poor against the Euro, we have to wait for at least 4 to 5 years to save up enough money! Enough saved up now, planning for next year Aug/Sept ...............WooooHoooo!!! Although a few years older now, we still have enough stamina left, God willing! So...........let's plan, Dan!