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Absolutely, you picked up the invitation! Thank you! Buen Camino...Thank you Kirkie... enjoy your dayI'm not sure if you were inviting others to write... I hope so because otherwise I'm hijacking your thread
I grew up within the family of a church but wasn't particularly religious... but nonetheless I certainly felt that I was called to walk the camino. We were on a family holiday in Northern Spain when I spotted pilgrims walking beside the road. I was hooked. I had to walk too. I was 2 years free of cancer but still on medication, 30 kgs overweight, very very fussy about where I laid my head and had never walked more than a few kilometres in my life... and yet a year later I astounded everyone I know by walking 800kms across Spain. It changed my life. I found the girl I had been (or meant to be) before the ravages of life changed me. There is now my life before the camino and my life after. I am forever grateful for that call...a whisper on the wind that says "come walk".
What a coincidence ; I just finished listening to The Innocents Abroad this morning. An interesting insight into travel and prejudices 150 years ago“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
Having gathered points of view from conversations with pilgrims from more than two dozen countries while on Camino in France, Spain, and Portugal, I am quite sure Twain's thoughts on this are accurate. Most everyone I met on Camino enriched me.
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