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[Ingridp3]

Hello and thank y'all for the help.

Jason and I(Ingrid) will begin our pilgrimage in August 2008 from San Antonio, Texas. My husband and I are devout Catholics and look forward to attending Holy Mass in Spain/France and walking this way together for our intentions.

I was telling my husband that I would like to spend a day at the beach during our walk and his response to me was, "Ingrid, I really don't want this trip to devolve into a vacation; we are on a pilgrimage."

My response was, "When did walking 200 miles with blisters and bed bugs become fun?"

Though I am twenty-seven, I seem to be out of shape and attached to worldly things, like hot baths, so these three weeks will be an experience in the freedom poverty can offer a soul. My intentions during this time may be as simple as trying not to kill my husband when it gets tough and I want to run to a hotel. Now that will be a miracle! This is a good way to give thanks for my husbands successful graduation from St. Mary's law school.

St. James- ora pro nobis

 

[PaultheCanuck]

Your posting didn't specify the route you are taking but I assume that it must be the Camino del Norte if you want to take a beach break along the way. Check out this site if you're going that way. If not there are always swimming pools...

http://www.santiago-compostela.net/cdn/ ... dn_en.html

 

[JohnnieWalker]

Hi Ingrid

I hope that you and Jason have a splendid pilgrimage. I am sure there will be lots of opportunities for prayer and worship.

And when times get tough remember the old couple who were asked if during their long marriage they had ever thought of divorce. " Divorce - never " they answered... "But, murder - lots of times".

Buen Camino

John

 

[frmikeminn]

Friends of mine got a golf club from their priest when they got married. He told them it was to remind them of the necessity of follow through!
Good luck on the walk. My daughter and I will be walking in April so we will miss you. Hope the time is blessed. For my part I found God in the pain of the camino in 2001. This time I am more interested in finding God in joy and gladness. Either way God is on the Camino, that I know and from several not very religious sources!
michael

 

[Ingridp3]

Your posting didn't specify the route you are taking but I assume that it must be the Camino del Norte if you want to take a beach break along the way. Check out this site if you're going that way. If not there are always swimming pools...

http://www.santiago-compostela.net/cdn/ ... dn_en.html

We are going to start in SJPP to Pamplona and then skip to Leon to finish in SC. I was hoping to have time to take a day trip to Finisterre(sp) and swim in the sea. This may or may not happen, because we are flying out of Lisbon and it is our intention to see Fatima even for one hour on our way out.

We we going to allow four days for SJPP to Pamplona, one day for travel from Pamplona to Leon, and 14 day for Leon to SC. Is this enough? I do NOT want to rush. I can make a sacrifice and skip the beach...we always have the muddy Gulf of Mexico.

 

[Ingridp3]

Oh! and thank you for the funny responses to my somewhat grim post. I do love my husband and he is VERY patient. This is going to be fun!

Do you think that I could do some damage with a walking stick rather than a golf club?

 

[Arn]

Ingrid and Jason...welcome to the Class of 2008!

Gosh, choosing a difficult starting point (SJPDP) and then a desire to finish swimming at Finisterre...what a great time you both will have!

I can see it clearly...Up into the Pyrenees...Jason looking back says, patiently..."Well Ingrid...are you coming! Ingrid in Finisterre...shucking off her clothes and running into the Atlantic...yelling, "Jason, it's...it's....soooooooooooooooo colllllddddddddddddddddddd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Great start...great finis!

Buen Camino,

Arn

 

[MermaidLilli]

So many people told me about arriving in Finisterra and jumping into the ocean as one part of the final rituals... the water as cleansing. Sitting on the earth and breathing in that clean ocean air as you watch the sun setting over that big ocean. Fire to burn your clothes. Could not do it all.
OK, October was too cold to jump into the ocean, but maybe this trip, I will be able to.
Can't wait
Lillian
Go for it , Ingrid