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- Planning a a Camino de Carlos
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Yes, I just got back from a Camino and when people ask how much I walked i've answered '@ 975,000 steps'. That gets some odd looks!Thanks, Charles Ross. I agree, and was looking more for the poetic than the athletic in responses. Okay, can anyone describe a great day of weird(?) walking WITHOUT any numbers? A particularly inspiring day of being lost or a serendipitous discovery down the road when the albergue one wanted was closed?
Absolutely.A particularly inspiring day of being lost
Oy. I bet. And I thought Rabinal to Ponferrada was a long day!Astorga to Ponferrada was an experience.
I've walked double stages in Galicia in the past (near O'Cebreiro to Sarria-but then did a rest day in Sarria because it was Palm Sunday, on most of my Caminos I've walked past Palais de Rei, once going to Melide because I walked with someone else so I wasn't walking alone late in day, and I've walked Arzua to Santiago, again because it was Holy Week, but also after Pedrouza, there didn't seem to be any place open, that was in 2009.) This year was the first time I stayed in Palas de Rei, and then first time since 2005 I've stayed in Pedrouza, which has really grown since then! Got to see the church there for the first time.y feet have just been killing me this time. I always found the Galician stages easier in the past, but it was probably just because I'd worked myself into good shape by then. But then there's the bittersweet tension of wanting to arrive and also not wanting to end yet.After reading a rather heated recent thread about double-stage walkers, I wanted to hear some positive stories if long walks.
When the weather and my mood are lovely, I often don’t feel like stopping and walk on. I’ll never forget the time I started a second “day” of walking at 11:00 p.m. under the full moon with a Camino acquaintance. We walked until dawn. Quiet and contemplative.
I sometimes walk two to three long days as I approach a larger city, then take an extra night or two in town, something I’m surprised others refuse. My love of León and its street culture grew out of a three day stretch there in 2011.
All that said, distance walked is merely a function of time and effort and mood, without a moral component, as I see it.
And the rest of you? Any offbeat tales of off-schedule or extraordinary days/ distances?
I won’t likely participate, but would love to hear your stories.
My first Camino was June 2020. Porto to SdC. Peak Covid. I had to do short days or multiple day stays in certain locations as I started on 18 June and the Portugal Spain border did reopen until 01 July!After reading a rather heated recent thread about double-stage walkers, I wanted to hear some positive stories if long walks.
When the weather and my mood are lovely, I often don’t feel like stopping and walk on. I’ll never forget the time I started a second “day” of walking at 11:00 p.m. under the full moon with a Camino acquaintance. We walked until dawn. Quiet and contemplative.
I sometimes walk two to three long days as I approach a larger city, then take an extra night or two in town, something I’m surprised others refuse. My love of León and its street culture grew out of a three day stretch there in 2011.
All that said, distance walked is merely a function of time and effort and mood, without a moral component, as I see it.
And the rest of you? Any offbeat tales of off-schedule or extraordinary days/ distances?
I won’t likely participate, but would love to hear your stories.
Not a Camino, my longest day on that was an unintentional 41 kms when we got lost.After reading a rather heated recent thread about double-stage walkers, I wanted to hear some positive stories if long walks.
When the weather and my mood are lovely, I often don’t feel like stopping and walk on. I’ll never forget the time I started a second “day” of walking at 11:00 p.m. under the full moon with a Camino acquaintance. We walked until dawn. Quiet and contemplative.
I sometimes walk two to three long days as I approach a larger city, then take an extra night or two in town, something I’m surprised others refuse. My love of León and its street culture grew out of a three day stretch there in 2011.
All that said, distance walked is merely a function of time and effort and mood, without a moral component, as I see it.
And the rest of you? Any offbeat tales of off-schedule or extraordinary days/ distances?
I won’t likely participate, but would love to hear your stories.
On my only visit to Australia in June and July a few years ago I did a little bushwalking in Queensland and the Northern Territory. Friends in Sydney assured me I would not come across any snakes at that time of year. On my first day walking in Queensland I met this little character. A death adder. Unlikely I'd have spotted it at all if it hadn't been coiled up on a gravel track and I hadn't had my eyes peeled for wildlife. No way I'd be wandering the bush at night either!but the rest of us declined as Australia is WAY TOO SCARY to walk through the bush at night
I'm a little behind you as I reached 60 this year but I'm having to come to terms with annodominitis too.Now in my 70s I found last fall that I didn’t/couldn’t walk those distances comfortably, so I am scaling back.
And the blog from that camino is a joy to read. I used it as my guide to the Levante.I am someone who learned while walking the Levante at age 64 that I LOVED walking 35 and 40 km days. I had walked caminos for 14 years before that and had never dared to go beyond the low 30s. Well, on the Levante, I walked from Valencia for four days totally alone and then met two Frenchmen. They were doing longer days, we got along well in spite of limited language connection, so I decided to give it a try. And wow, I loved it!
Now in my 70s I found last fall that I didn’t/couldn’t walk those distances comfortably, so I am scaling back. But I still hope to walk distances that challenge me and fill me with the feelings that only come (for me) from hours out there enjoying the natural landscape, with me and my own thoughts.
I’m glad that there has only been one comment in this thread suggesting that walking long distances somehow equates to an inferior superficial camino experience. I never did understand why people tend to equate arriving early in the day and sitting around in the afternoon with “smelling the roses” while walking and feeling invigorated and alive and grateful was somehow relegated to the category of a less worthy camino. Everyone should do what works best for their own body, and you’ll never know what works best for your body unless you try different things!
That is my secret hope as well. I have a few more untraveled routes I dearly hope to walk (Serrana, Mozárabe from Málaga, Lana from Valencia, Viejo from Pamplona are those that come to mind), but hope that I can be back on the Francés, Norte, and Primitivo for those twilight years, if I am so lucky as to have them!The good news is that the availability of albergues and hostals on the main Camino routes mean that by choosing more cautiously and packing light I hope to keep walking for a few years yet!
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