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Thanks to an interesting confluence of events this week - a few chance remarks encountered on these forums, some well-timed pre-Black Friday airfare deals in my email inbox, and a pleasantly contemplative post-Thanksgiving dinner wine and tryptophan haze - I decided to change the dates of the Camino I've been planning for next year.
So instead of beginning in September 2020, I will be flying to Paris on May 6 and starting my walk from SJPdP a few days later.
Being an inveterate planner, as well as constitutionally indecisive (a lethal combination!), I'd gone back and forth a fair amount regarding the relative merits and potential drawbacks of experiencing my first Camino in the Fall rather than the Spring. But it was @JillGat's observation in this thread about seeing storks along the route in the spring and not in the fall that finally decided things for me. What can I say? I like storks.
(I also finally came to accept that the Camino will still be there should I decide to return someday, and will be able to do so at a different time of year. Thanks to everyone on here who pointed that out as well, whether explicitly or through example.)
Moving my start date up four months will of course deprive me of that much opportunity for training and preparation. But I'm in reasonably decent shape thanks to walking and hiking regularly, and feel that I'm already well enough prepared thanks to my propensity for planning ahead in general (see above). And there's no time like the present, or closer to the present - right?
So: flight to Paris and first night's accomodation in SJPdP (at Gite Makila, thanks to another forum suggestion) booked, very general intinerary/schedule penciled in (I'm leaving myself plenty of wiggle room en route to Santiago and thence to Muxia/Finisterre, though right now my calendar seems to have me reaching the latter on the Summer Equinox, which seems apt somehow), REI/Amazon wishlist for a few choice items for my adventures in place ... and now I'm going to tackle getting my details in the Camino Calendar to make it really official
Big thanks to everyone here for your information, insight, inspiration, motivation, and all-around good vibes.
Look forward to crossing paths with some of you next year!
So instead of beginning in September 2020, I will be flying to Paris on May 6 and starting my walk from SJPdP a few days later.
Being an inveterate planner, as well as constitutionally indecisive (a lethal combination!), I'd gone back and forth a fair amount regarding the relative merits and potential drawbacks of experiencing my first Camino in the Fall rather than the Spring. But it was @JillGat's observation in this thread about seeing storks along the route in the spring and not in the fall that finally decided things for me. What can I say? I like storks.
(I also finally came to accept that the Camino will still be there should I decide to return someday, and will be able to do so at a different time of year. Thanks to everyone on here who pointed that out as well, whether explicitly or through example.)
Moving my start date up four months will of course deprive me of that much opportunity for training and preparation. But I'm in reasonably decent shape thanks to walking and hiking regularly, and feel that I'm already well enough prepared thanks to my propensity for planning ahead in general (see above). And there's no time like the present, or closer to the present - right?
So: flight to Paris and first night's accomodation in SJPdP (at Gite Makila, thanks to another forum suggestion) booked, very general intinerary/schedule penciled in (I'm leaving myself plenty of wiggle room en route to Santiago and thence to Muxia/Finisterre, though right now my calendar seems to have me reaching the latter on the Summer Equinox, which seems apt somehow), REI/Amazon wishlist for a few choice items for my adventures in place ... and now I'm going to tackle getting my details in the Camino Calendar to make it really official
Big thanks to everyone here for your information, insight, inspiration, motivation, and all-around good vibes.
Look forward to crossing paths with some of you next year!
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I’ll walk the same route (from SJPdP to Santiago and then to Finisterre/Muxia) a few days behind you. 
At the moment my plan is to reach Santiago in 34 days (staying at Orisson first day to not kill myself and soak up that real camino vibe + maybe give myself some days off somewhere further on the way) and then continue to Finisterre and Muxia (or vice versa, dunno yet). But I guess I’ll know exactly what/where/when only when I’m there, depending on how it all goes and feels. I have May 13- June 20/21 for this walk. So, hopefully should be enough to manage to stop and smell the roses on my way too. Maybe see you in Pamplona then! Or somewhere else! 
