LIVE from the Camino Is this normal?

[ktchnofdngr]

So, here I am, about 4 days away from finishing my first Camino, and I am already saying things like, "on my next Camino..."

I already have plans to add a Camino fund category to my budget. Am I crazy?!!

Blessings,

Ruth

 

[MendiWalker]

So, here I am, about 4 days away from finishing my first Camino, and I am already saying things like, "on my next Camino..."

I already have plans to add a Camino fund category to my budget. Am I crazy?!!

Nope, you aren´t. Welcome to the gang.

Buen Camino!

 

[stevenjarvis]

In the interests of balance - Yes, you're crazy, I can't imagine anyone feeling like that ...

Having said that, see Missing the Camino thread here
http://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/missing-the-camino.20100/#post-156418

Enjoy and happy planning,

 

[nellpilgrim]

So, here I am, about 4 days away from finishing my first Camino, and I am already saying things like, "on my next Camino..."

I already have plans to add a Camino fund category to my budget. Am I crazy?!!

Blessings,

Ruth

Yes but you're also crazy-wise Ruth..... like all of 'God's fools' (and you may bump into one or two others on this forum)

 

[Bajaracer]

So, here I am, about 4 days away from finishing my first Camino, and I am already saying things like, "on my next Camino..."

I already have plans to add a Camino fund category to my budget. Am I crazy?!!

Blessings,

Ruth

Absolutely not! I'm already planning my next one, with what I know now, my new backpack will be smaller and I'll be carrying a lot less.

 

[Rebekah Scott]

congratulations! You're almost there!

 

[Stephen Nicholls]

Of course you're crazy. But you're in some excellent company

 

[piogaw]

Hello ruth,

You are crazy like all of us. The camino can be very addictive.

Congratulations on your camino. Maybe i will see you in santiago.

 

[indyrem]

So, here I am, about 4 days away from finishing my first Camino, and I am already saying things like, "on my next Camino..."

I already have plans to add a Camino fund category to my budget. Am I crazy?!!

Blessings,

Ruth

If you're crazy then so am I. I finished my Camino from SJPP almost 3 months ago & I'm already planning to walk the Norte or Ingles. I love the Camino . Congratulations & Buen Camino.
Remy from Indy

 

[BeatriceKarjalainen]

Sounds perfectly normal in my ears otherwise I'm crazy as well ;-)

 

[MichaelB10398]

Dear Ruth,
It is with a heavy heart that I confirm your worst fears; you are nuts. Your mind has taken wing and has left you a blubbering idiot. No doubt at this very moment you are wasting away with thoughts of crossing the meseta in the early hours of the morning, seeing smiles from strangers who wish you the best on your Camino, and sleeping with others that have a faint whiff of something that has gone past ripe and deep into the sour stage. It is also with some trepidation that I inform you that you will be daydreaming about your next Camino for however many days, months, or years it will take for you to return.

More significantly, the call of the Camino will haunt you the rest of your days. From this point forward you are damned to walk the Camino of joy and peace in all your dreams. God bless you and every other pilgrim that has joined all those others that have walked before.

 

[BeatriceKarjalainen]

Dear Ruth,
It is with a heavy heart that I confirm your worst fears; you are nuts. Your mind has taken wing and left you a blubbering idiot wasting away with thoughts of crossing the meseta in the early hours of the morning, seeing smiles from strangers who wish you the best in your Camino, and sleeping with others that have a faint wif of something that is gone past ripe into the sour stage. It is also with some trepidation that I inform you that you will be daydreaming about your next Camino for however many days, months, or years it will take for you to return.

The call of the Camino will haunt you the rest of your days. From this point forward you are damned to walk the Camino of joy and peace in your dreams. God bless the pilgrim that has joined all those others that have walked before.

I think I can live with that nuttiness

 

[LTfit]

This forum is definately the wrong place to ask such a question. There are far too many repeat offenders amongst us!

 

[pilgrim b]

So, here I am, about 4 days away from finishing my first Camino, and I am already saying things like, "on my next Camino..."

I already have plans to add a Camino fund category to my budget. Am I crazy?!!

Blessings,

Ruth

Would that I could tell you different, and if I could I should not, for gladly there is no cure, and if one could be found I would have to hide it from thee . So that you, like myself smitten to go on for ever, on an eternal pilgrimage daily. To return from time to time to the Camino to remind yourself of how things be with grace when walking to Santiago.
We're not crazy are we, really?

 

[MKalcolm M]

I liked the camino norte so much that after walking it once, I am putting my house up for sale, and planning to open an alberge with two other perrigrinos that I met on the walk, one of whom now lives with me. Crazy? Probably, but sanity has always prooved unispiring. I'm planning to walk all the routes by my 70th birthday. See you on the camino, sometime, somewhere...

 

[Hephsi]

So, here I am, about 4 days away from finishing my first Camino, and I am already saying things like, "on my next Camino..."

I already have plans to add a Camino fund category to my budget. Am I crazy?!!

Blessings,

Ruth

Oh! Well done! I think you bring us all right there with you. I have done only one short one but know that feeling and it hasn't left. I like your signature.

 

[Stephen Nicholls]

When you look at the pictures of contributors on the left hand side of their comments, you see a bit about them under "Camino(s) past & future."
You'll see from mine that I only discovered the camino in 2011, but I've walked one each year, ever since.
I am actively seeking medical help about this addiction, but have been told that the UK's "National Health Service" can't help me. I've also approached Saga Insurance, to insure against doing ANY more caminos, now that I've reached the age of 75.
Sadly, they won't insure me.
I think I'll just give in. My Camino Ingles starts on May 16th ..... and now I find myself wondering about the Primitivo for 2015.
Yep. We're all nuts

 

[Grant]

So, here I am, about 4 days away from finishing my first Camino, and I am already saying things like, "on my next Camino..."

Congratulations on your Camino, Ruth. You have been bitten by the magical Camino bug. I got bitten seven years ago and have dreamt of returning ever since. I return this year.
Thankfully there is no cure.

 

[Jabaldo]

My wife and I are yet to start our Camino it is do exciting for me to read your post.

 

[mcpilgrim]

How exciting! My husband and I walked from St jean pied du port to Puente de la Reina last September. He had walked the whole Camino Frances the previous year. My son and I are planning to continue from where I left off and walk as far as we can in one week.
I'm thinking of going to St Jean pied du port and then going by bus to our starting point. Any advice? Time is limited as I am a carer for my 90 year old mother.
Cheers Mcpilgrim.

 

[weekjchammings]

So, here I am, about 4 days away from finishing my first Camino, and I am already saying things like, "on my next Camino..."

I already have plans to add a Camino fund category to my budget. Am I crazy?!!

Blessings,

Ruth

Hello Ruth,

Not in the slightest could you be described as crazy, stark staring bonkers yes most definitely. We all have that commonly known industrial complaint.........
NAMELY REPETATIVE SYNDROME DISORDER.
Only one cure known to mankind is to commence another Camino as soon as possible and be with like minded sane pilgrims. Everyone back home thinks we are mad, but we all have a secret.

I'M WALKIN IN SUNSHINE..................well I will be in 23 days.
IT IS WALKING, IT IS LIVING, IT IS FEELING, IT IS THE CAMINO.

 

[Jabaldo]

Hello Ruth,

Not in the slightest could you be described as crazy, stark staring bonkers yes most definitely. We all have that commonly known industrial complaint.........
NAMELY REPETATIVE SYNDROME DISORDER.
Only one cure known to mankind is to commence another Camino as soon as possible and be with like minded sane pilgrims. Everyone back home thinks we are mad, but we all have a secret.

I'M WALKIN IN SUNSHINE..................well I will be in 23 days.
IT IS WALKING, IT IS LIVING, IT IS FEELING, IT IS THE CAMINO.

Good for you and congrats to you. My wife and I state our Camino in September.

 

[ksam]

So, here I am, about 4 days away from finishing my first Camino, and I am already saying things like, "on my next Camino..."

I already have plans to add a Camino fund category to my budget. Am I crazy?!!

Blessings,

Ruth

Well, at least now you know the truth. We're all a little mad! It took me 20+ years to get to do my first Camino and this year will be my 3rd. ANd..before even doing this one, I've got plans for a 4th! So welcome to the nut house! It's way more interesting here! Normal..why bother!

 

[wimamkreutz]

Almost one year ago i walked the camino frances from sjpdp to santiago. I still think about this wonserfull expierience everyday. I look forward to walk the ruta de la plata in 2017. Appearently It hadden as much impact on me like It has on everybody else. So i think we are all a litlle bit crazy, but i like beeing a litlle bit crazy when It is about a positive expierience. So let's ben crazy all together! !!
Ben camino!

 

[lynnejohn]

Really, who wants to be normal? What is normal? Whose normal is that?
It's more fun just stepping off the edge no matter what you're doing or where you are.

 

[Alan Pearce]

I lurrrve this thread!!!

My first trip to Spain to walk a camino was in 2008. I leave again in 4 weeks from today for what will be my 6th visit since then. The pay from my part time job goes into a separate Camino Account, and I mentally quantify the amount in there by estimating how many caminos it will cover. By next year I will have enough in that account to pay for a trip every year up to and including the next Holy Year in 2021 [ I missed the last one but am determined to be there next time ].

We have all heard references to "the lunatics being in charge of the asylum" - I wish to apply for the position of Head Warder, but there is fierce competition out there.

Thank you to everyone who has posted on this thread.

Alan

Be brave. Life is joyous.

 

[OzAnnie]

I liked the camino norte so much that after walking it once, I am putting my house up for sale, and planning to open an alberge with two other perrigrinos that I met on the walk, one of whom now lives with me. Crazy? Probably, but sanity has always prooved unispiring. I'm planning to walk all the routes by my 70th birthday. See you on the camino, sometime, somewhere...

Hi Malcolm
That is really following your heart or stepping off the edge. Very inspiring and wish u well.
Annie

 

[Jamilla's mum]

Wow! An up-til-now solitary madwoman, I think I've found my community at last.
Looking forward to my (first?) Camino, starting out from Sevilla with Jamilla my hand-made donkey carrying my bag, beginning in less than three weeks.

 

[Al the optimist]

Allegedly if a day can pass without you thinking about the Camino you are not crazy. But I have never met anyone yet who has or intends to walk who falls into that category. Certainly not me, I am definitely an crazy addict. So roll on May for the Frances/Salvador/Primitivo?finisterre/Muxia/Santiago if I can manage it all. When there I find it hard to stop, but have to a some point (I suppose).