Theresa Brandon
Artist, photographer, dreamer
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Inglés '18, Ingles '19, Ingles '22, Portugues '22
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I started the Camino Ingles last month with some dear friends, but soon found out the hills were too much for me. (I have asthma and had not trained on hills here in Illinois. In fact, I hadn't anticipated the hills being so steep and long, nor how it would affect my asthma). After the first few days of trying to keep up and having my friends wait patiently so often, I decided to start taking taxis ahead each day, then walking back along the Camino (which is a little tricky), finding a spot to paint for the day and waiting until my friends met up with me to walk into town together. And it was awesome - I had plenty of time to paint and to take photographs, spend time alone and with my friends. While my journey was not what I had planned, my sketchbook became my personal credencial. I did walk the last 7 k into Santiago with my friends, which was absolutely lovely. After a day in Santiago we took the bus to Muxia to watch the sun set over the ocean, then back to Santiago for one last day capped by the rooftop tour of the Cathedral in the evening.
Spending many months reading posts on this forum, gave me the courage to create "my own Camino" and I wouldn't change one single thing!
Hi Theresa.I started the Camino Ingles last month with some dear friends, but soon found out the hills were too much for me. (I have asthma and had not trained on hills here in Illinois. In fact, I hadn't anticipated the hills being so steep and long, nor how it would affect my asthma). After the first few days of trying to keep up and having my friends wait patiently so often, I decided to start taking taxis ahead each day, then walking back along the Camino (which is a little tricky), finding a spot to paint for the day and waiting until my friends met up with me to walk into town together. And it was awesome - I had plenty of time to paint and to take photographs, spend time alone and with my friends. While my journey was not what I had planned, my sketchbook became my personal credencial. I did walk the last 7 k into Santiago with my friends, which was absolutely lovely. After a day in Santiago we took the bus to Muxia to watch the sun set over the ocean, then back to Santiago for one last day capped by the rooftop tour of the Cathedral in the evening.
Spending many months reading posts on this forum, gave me the courage to create "my own Camino" and I wouldn't change one single thing!View attachment 48164View attachment 48165View attachment 48166View attachment 48167View attachment 48168
and a link to my photos:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/EsVBy4htdW46T13U6
How beautiful and happy for you that you found the Camino ment for you.I started the Camino Ingles last month with some dear friends, but soon found out the hills were too much for me. (I have asthma and had not trained on hills here in Illinois. In fact, I hadn't anticipated the hills being so steep and long, nor how it would affect my asthma). After the first few days of trying to keep up and having my friends wait patiently so often, I decided to start taking taxis ahead each day, then walking back along the Camino (which is a little tricky), finding a spot to paint for the day and waiting until my friends met up with me to walk into town together. And it was awesome - I had plenty of time to paint and to take photographs, spend time alone and with my friends. While my journey was not what I had planned, my sketchbook became my personal credencial. I did walk the last 7 k into Santiago with my friends, which was absolutely lovely. After a day in Santiago we took the bus to Muxia to watch the sun set over the ocean, then back to Santiago for one last day capped by the rooftop tour of the Cathedral in the evening.
Spending many months reading posts on this forum, gave me the courage to create "my own Camino" and I wouldn't change one single thing!View attachment 48164View attachment 48165View attachment 48166View attachment 48167View attachment 48168
and a link to my photos:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/EsVBy4htdW46T13U6
Thanks for the information. I am hoping to do the Ingles, and I also have asthma, so it is a good heads-up for me. Your pictures are incredible - what a lovely way to remember your Camino!
Go you for your walk. Also you have a real talent with the brushes. God bless.I started the Camino Ingles last month with some dear friends, but soon found out the hills were too much for me. (I have asthma and had not trained on hills here in Illinois. In fact, I hadn't anticipated the hills being so steep and long, nor how it would affect my asthma). After the first few days of trying to keep up and having my friends wait patiently so often, I decided to start taking taxis ahead each day, then walking back along the Camino (which is a little tricky), finding a spot to paint for the day and waiting until my friends met up with me to walk into town together. And it was awesome - I had plenty of time to paint and to take photographs, spend time alone and with my friends. While my journey was not what I had planned, my sketchbook became my personal credencial. I did walk the last 7 k into Santiago with my friends, which was absolutely lovely. After a day in Santiago we took the bus to Muxia to watch the sun set over the ocean, then back to Santiago for one last day capped by the rooftop tour of the Cathedral in the evening.
Spending many months reading posts on this forum, gave me the courage to create "my own Camino" and I wouldn't change one single thing!View attachment 48164View attachment 48165View attachment 48166View attachment 48167View attachment 48168
and a link to my photos:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/EsVBy4htdW46T13U6
Me gusta! Good for you!I started the Camino Ingles last month with some dear friends, but soon found out the hills were too much for me. (I have asthma and had not trained on hills here in Illinois. In fact, I hadn't anticipated the hills being so steep and long, nor how it would affect my asthma). After the first few days of trying to keep up and having my friends wait patiently so often, I decided to start taking taxis ahead each day, then walking back along the Camino (which is a little tricky), finding a spot to paint for the day and waiting until my friends met up with me to walk into town together. And it was awesome - I had plenty of time to paint and to take photographs, spend time alone and with my friends. While my journey was not what I had planned, my sketchbook became my personal credencial. I did walk the last 7 k into Santiago with my friends, which was absolutely lovely. After a day in Santiago we took the bus to Muxia to watch the sun set over the ocean, then back to Santiago for one last day capped by the rooftop tour of the Cathedral in the evening.
Spending many months reading posts on this forum, gave me the courage to create "my own Camino" and I wouldn't change one single thing!View attachment 48164View attachment 48165View attachment 48166View attachment 48167View attachment 48168
and a link to my photos:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/EsVBy4htdW46T13U6
I started the Camino Ingles last month with some dear friends, but soon found out the hills were too much for me. (I have asthma and had not trained on hills here in Illinois. In fact, I hadn't anticipated the hills being so steep and long, nor how it would affect my asthma). After the first few days of trying to keep up and having my friends wait patiently so often, I decided to start taking taxis ahead each day, then walking back along the Camino (which is a little tricky), finding a spot to paint for the day and waiting until my friends met up with me to walk into town together. And it was awesome - I had plenty of time to paint and to take photographs, spend time alone and with my friends. While my journey was not what I had planned, my sketchbook became my personal credencial. I did walk the last 7 k into Santiago with my friends, which was absolutely lovely. After a day in Santiago we took the bus to Muxia to watch the sun set over the ocean, then back to Santiago for one last day capped by the rooftop tour of the Cathedral in the evening.
Spending many months reading posts on this forum, gave me the courage to create "my own Camino" and I wouldn't change one single thing!View attachment 48164View attachment 48165View attachment 48166View attachment 48167View attachment 48168
and a link to my photos:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/EsVBy4htdW46T13U6
I started the Camino Ingles last month with some dear friends, but soon found out the hills were too much for me. (I have asthma and had not trained on hills here in Illinois. In fact, I hadn't anticipated the hills being so steep and long, nor how it would affect my asthma). After the first few days of trying to keep up and having my friends wait patiently so often, I decided to start taking taxis ahead each day, then walking back along the Camino (which is a little tricky), finding a spot to paint for the day and waiting until my friends met up with me to walk into town together. And it was awesome - I had plenty of time to paint and to take photographs, spend time alone and with my friends. While my journey was not what I had planned, my sketchbook became my personal credencial. I did walk the last 7 k into Santiago with my friends, which was absolutely lovely. After a day in Santiago we took the bus to Muxia to watch the sun set over the ocean, then back to Santiago for one last day capped by the rooftop tour of the Cathedral in the evening.
Spending many months reading posts on this forum, gave me the courage to create "my own Camino" and I wouldn't change one single thing!View attachment 48164View attachment 48165View attachment 48166View attachment 48167View attachment 48168
and a link to my photos:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/EsVBy4htdW46T13U6
I started the Camino Ingles last month with some dear friends, but soon found out the hills were too much for me. (I have asthma and had not trained on hills here in Illinois. In fact, I hadn't anticipated the hills being so steep and long, nor how it would affect my asthma). After the first few days of trying to keep up and having my friends wait patiently so often, I decided to start taking taxis ahead each day, then walking back along the Camino (which is a little tricky), finding a spot to paint for the day and waiting until my friends met up with me to walk into town together. And it was awesome - I had plenty of time to paint and to take photographs, spend time alone and with my friends. While my journey was not what I had planned, my sketchbook became my personal credencial. I did walk the last 7 k into Santiago with my friends, which was absolutely lovely. After a day in Santiago we took the bus to Muxia to watch the sun set over the ocean, then back to Santiago for one last day capped by the rooftop tour of the Cathedral in the evening.
Spending many months reading posts on this forum, gave me the courage to create "my own Camino" and I wouldn't change one single thing!View attachment 48164View attachment 48165View attachment 48166View attachment 48167View attachment 48168
and a link to my photos:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/EsVBy4htdW46T13U6
I started the Camino Ingles last month with some dear friends, but soon found out the hills were too much for me. (I have asthma and had not trained on hills here in Illinois. In fact, I hadn't anticipated the hills being so steep and long, nor how it would affect my asthma). After the first few days of trying to keep up and having my friends wait patiently so often, I decided to start taking taxis ahead each day, then walking back along the Camino (which is a little tricky), finding a spot to paint for the day and waiting until my friends met up with me to walk into town together. And it was awesome - I had plenty of time to paint and to take photographs, spend time alone and with my friends. While my journey was not what I had planned, my sketchbook became my personal credencial. I did walk the last 7 k into Santiago with my friends, which was absolutely lovely. After a day in Santiago we took the bus to Muxia to watch the sun set over the ocean, then back to Santiago for one last day capped by the rooftop tour of the Cathedral in the evening.
Spending many months reading posts on this forum, gave me the courage to create "my own Camino" and I wouldn't change one single thing!View attachment 48164View attachment 48165View attachment 48166View attachment 48167View attachment 48168
and a link to my photos:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/EsVBy4htdW46T13U6
So your journey was to draw those wonderful pictures then...I started the Camino Ingles last month with some dear friends, but soon found out the hills were too much for me. (I have asthma and had not trained on hills here in Illinois. In fact, I hadn't anticipated the hills being so steep and long, nor how it would affect my asthma). After the first few days of trying to keep up and having my friends wait patiently so often, I decided to start taking taxis ahead each day, then walking back along the Camino (which is a little tricky), finding a spot to paint for the day and waiting until my friends met up with me to walk into town together. And it was awesome - I had plenty of time to paint and to take photographs, spend time alone and with my friends. While my journey was not what I had planned, my sketchbook became my personal credencial. I did walk the last 7 k into Santiago with my friends, which was absolutely lovely. After a day in Santiago we took the bus to Muxia to watch the sun set over the ocean, then back to Santiago for one last day capped by the rooftop tour of the Cathedral in the evening.
Spending many months reading posts on this forum, gave me the courage to create "my own Camino" and I wouldn't change one single thing!View attachment 48164View attachment 48165View attachment 48166View attachment 48167View attachment 48168
and a link to my photos:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/EsVBy4htdW46T13U6
Beautifully executed - a rare talent. Thank you for sharing.Finished sketches, accordion fold watercolor book (Pentalic Dreamcatcher), 4" x 6", watercolor, Micron pen, watersoluble pencil, opaque markers, ball point pen (after I lost my brush and wore the Micron out!) Kindly ignore any spelling errors and wonky calligraphy. There is a slight pinkish cast to the scans.View attachment 48301View attachment 48302View attachment 48303View attachment 48304View attachment 48305View attachment 48306View attachment 48307View attachment 48308View attachment 48309
What a great perspective! Thank you!The slower you walk the more detail and richness you experience in each new scene you come upon. The degree of intimacy one experiences with people, objects and the environment is inversely related to the speed one travels through them. You saw more in terms of depth and less in terms of scope…and it was just the opposite for those of us doing 30 km per day. I look at one of my pictures and see “everything” there is to see in 5 seconds. I look at your picture of the same object and see a story that captivates me for 5 minutes.
I started the Camino Ingles last month with some dear friends, but soon found out the hills were too much for me. (I have asthma and had not trained on hills here in Illinois. In fact, I hadn't anticipated the hills being so steep and long, nor how it would affect my asthma). After the first few days of trying to keep up and having my friends wait patiently so often, I decided to start taking taxis ahead each day, then walking back along the Camino (which is a little tricky), finding a spot to paint for the day and waiting until my friends met up with me to walk into town together. And it was awesome - I had plenty of time to paint and to take photographs, spend time alone and with my friends. While my journey was not what I had planned, my sketchbook became my personal credencial. I did walk the last 7 k into Santiago with my friends, which was absolutely lovely. After a day in Santiago we took the bus to Muxia to watch the sun set over the ocean, then back to Santiago for one last day capped by the rooftop tour of the Cathedral in the evening.
Spending many months reading posts on this forum, gave me the courage to create "my own Camino" and I wouldn't change one single thing!View attachment 48164View attachment 48165View attachment 48166View attachment 48167View attachment 48168
and a link to my photos:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/EsVBy4htdW46T13U6
Theresa, what stunning art and what I love is that it was created on the Camino. You truly walked your Camino, your way, as for each of us. Thank you for sharing. Ultreia, IreneI started the Camino Ingles last month with some dear friends, but soon found out the hills were too much for me. (I have asthma and had not trained on hills here in Illinois. In fact, I hadn't anticipated the hills being so steep and long, nor how it would affect my asthma). After the first few days of trying to keep up and having my friends wait patiently so often, I decided to start taking taxis ahead each day, then walking back along the Camino (which is a little tricky), finding a spot to paint for the day and waiting until my friends met up with me to walk into town together. And it was awesome - I had plenty of time to paint and to take photographs, spend time alone and with my friends. While my journey was not what I had planned, my sketchbook became my personal credencial. I did walk the last 7 k into Santiago with my friends, which was absolutely lovely. After a day in Santiago we took the bus to Muxia to watch the sun set over the ocean, then back to Santiago for one last day capped by the rooftop tour of the Cathedral in the evening.
Spending many months reading posts on this forum, gave me the courage to create "my own Camino" and I wouldn't change one single thing!View attachment 48164View attachment 48165View attachment 48166View attachment 48167View attachment 48168
and a link to my photos:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/EsVBy4htdW46T13U6
Lovely work! The Inglese is such a nice and varied little Camino. I can see why you went back.Postscript: I went back 6 months later (2019) with one of my original companions and did the Ingles from La Coruna (after completing 25K at home). Day 2 had a really long climb but we did it and safely and jubilantly made it to Santiago a few days later.
Further Camino plans got altered by Covid, but this year (2022) I did the Ingles from Ferrol again, completely, with my 74 year old Aunt. This fall I did the Portugues with my original Camino group, from Porto along the Senda Litoral and the Variant Espiritual.
I've done sketchbooks for each Camino, and my sketch kit is the first thing I pack.
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing!Finished sketches, accordion fold watercolor book (Pentalic Dreamcatcher), 4" x 6", watercolor, Micron pen, watersoluble pencil, opaque markers, ball point pen (after I lost my brush and wore the Micron out!) Kindly ignore any spelling errors and wonky calligraphy. There is a slight pinkish cast to the scans.View attachment 48301View attachment 48302View attachment 48303View attachment 48304View attachment 48305View attachment 48306View attachment 48307View attachment 48308View attachment 48309
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