Wayne of LaVerne
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- 2017 bike, solo & lost, SJPP-Santiago via Napoleon Route
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Sometimes it's a small world indeed! I sent a Christmas letter in late 2014 to an old high school friend who had moved to Idaho years earlier, telling her that I was planning to walk my first Camino in Spain in the following spring of 2015. She responded that her son had met two young men at his college who were also planning the same Camino; one was going to walk while pushing his friend in a wheelchair. They were going to call their story "I'll Push You".I rode the Camino in May, solo, Napolean route. While being physically destroyed on day 1, I would fall back on a video I watched, "I'll Push You", a Calvin College lecture.
Today at 6AM, by chance, I met them. We were on the same flight from Boise to LAX.
Their premier showing, a Fandango special event, is this Thursday nationwide.
I bought my tickets online yesterday. They are amazing, upbeat & inspiring.
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My wife and I went to a Fathom Events at our local theater last night and watched "I'll Push You". A great documentary about two friends one immobile and in a wheel chair and his best friend walking the France route from St Jean Pied deport to Santiago. It was professionally filmed and a good watch. I work with people with disabilities and am looking forward to a DVD coming out so I can share it with my patients.
Saw it last night with a couple fellow peregrinas. Very nice take on the Camino - more about dedication and community than most stories. In fact it helped me to articulate the key descriptors to what about the Camino that I long to recapture and maintain in my life. Buen Camino!My wife and I went to a Fathom Events at our local theater last night and watched "I'll Push You". A great documentary about two friends one immobile and in a wheel chair and his best friend walking the France route from St Jean Pied deport to Santiago. It was professionally filmed and a good watch. I work with people with disabilities and am looking forward to a DVD coming out so I can share it with my patients.
I saw it last night too and thought it was wonderful!My wife and I went to a Fathom Events at our local theater last night and watched "I'll Push You". A great documentary about two friends one immobile and in a wheel chair and his best friend walking the France route from St Jean Pied deport to Santiago. It was professionally filmed and a good watch. I work with people with disabilities and am looking forward to a DVD coming out so I can share it with my patients.
Can anyone tell me if the botofumeria is gonna be working next year. I’m planning my Camino for Sept 2018I saw it last night too and thought it was wonderful!
They didn't show or mention a Compostela. In fact, they didn't even show the cathedral. I don't think that receiving a Compestela was their goal.This is great, will have to see it. I'm curious - was the pilgrim in the wheelchair able to get a Compostela despite not walking or biking?
It was not portrayed but you could probably find the answer on the interweb.This is great, will have to see it. I'm curious - was the pilgrim in the wheelchair able to get a Compostela despite not walking or biking?
I wouldn't refuse it, hands or no hands! In fact I would give him two Compostelas...one for each wheel!In my experience working as a volunteer at the pilgrim office, the answer is "yes." The premise is that, as long as the person in the wheelchair assists in the motivation (movement) of the chair, it is all good. As this fellow could use his hands, at times, to help wheel or stabilize the chair, he "did" the Camino.
This said, I have only seen this once or twice during the times I have been there over four years.
Besides, would YOU refuse it?
Besides, would YOU refuse it?
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