- Time of past OR future Camino
- 2015 - planning done and now future
Hi All, My son said I was paranoid and we HAD been walking a long time in very remote parts of the Camino Primitivo, and still my "mom, NYer self" has not been able to shed this, so I am sharing it. In the last ten km after the downward side of the mountain, we were on a stretch of road. When most cars passed us, they would move further from us and keep going if they came from behind. If facing us, I would always wave and look the driver in the eye. I am walking with a 13 year old son, and have been dressing in bright colors - orange scarf and bright print rain jacket that I grabbed before we left home. Not intentional and has certainly been useful. Anyway, this one time this car comes zooming from behind and then slows eerily as driver passes us. He fully looked us up and down and then slowly drove away. It really made me weak-kneed. So much so that I had my son (we argued) call the Albergue that we were headed to. I asked him to say...here is where we are, we are still coming, how far are we, etc....just to have someone on the phone (I don't speak Spanish and my son does). Anyway, I felt that if something happened ( what if the car came back?), at least we had a touch-stone and a time. I have been processing this ever since ( why didn't I take the license plate number?, etc.,). The odd thing was - well, that the whole thing was odd. The guy was driving a large silver Mercedes and may have just been grumpy to share the road with pilgrims. I can still see his face though and he just didn't seem to be a local (whatever that means!), so it still feels haunting.