My husband and I walked the Camino together. He had done the entire 500 miles in 2015. Now...I am 64 and he is 66 and it was our first wedding anniversary. I write this June 7, 2018 from a hotel in Santiago. Yesterday after pouring rains and about 20 miles from Santiago, I decided to better protect my stamped form by moving it to an inside jacket pocket. Lost it. Denied by the Pilgrim Office a compostela despite my husband presenting his, our pictures on the camera, etc. Now I am trying to keep from being angry at myself, and to understand what lessons I can learn from this. I was offered a Welcome Paper, but I respectfully told the Pilgrim Office " No Thankyou ", and left it. As a former policy maker and bureaucrat, not unlike the Cstholic Church to which I formerly belonged, it could be quite a lesson! Susan
Berger Hamrick