Thomas Sheldon
New Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Planning for the Camino Frances for September-October 2015.
I am planning on walking the CF from SJPP in September-October 2015.
I regularly travel and recently took up a good overbooking bump ticket credit from a major airline. It will expire before my 2015 trip to Spain, but I am now thinking about using it to go on a two week or so CF reconnaisance trip to Spain late this September.
The trip would be into and out of Madrid, with a rental car to esentially cruise the back roads of the CF route for several days, staying in commercial hotels and B&B's.
I also can along bring a friend, who is interested in the Camino, but not planning to do it herself.
I see several advantages in this, obviously for my planning purposes, the opportunity to see some sights that are a bit off the usual walking route and spend some extra time in stopover places like Burgos and Leon.
My issue is as I am thinking about this, I have the uncomfortable feeling that it's bad karma to do this before my CF.
I would love to hear from folks who have done recon trips and what the Camino community thinks about this plan?
Thanks in advance for your comments.
I regularly travel and recently took up a good overbooking bump ticket credit from a major airline. It will expire before my 2015 trip to Spain, but I am now thinking about using it to go on a two week or so CF reconnaisance trip to Spain late this September.
The trip would be into and out of Madrid, with a rental car to esentially cruise the back roads of the CF route for several days, staying in commercial hotels and B&B's.
I also can along bring a friend, who is interested in the Camino, but not planning to do it herself.
I see several advantages in this, obviously for my planning purposes, the opportunity to see some sights that are a bit off the usual walking route and spend some extra time in stopover places like Burgos and Leon.
My issue is as I am thinking about this, I have the uncomfortable feeling that it's bad karma to do this before my CF.
I would love to hear from folks who have done recon trips and what the Camino community thinks about this plan?
Thanks in advance for your comments.