shefollowsshells
Veteran Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Several alone and with children
I don't share this story much as I never would want it to define my Camino, I actually forgot about it many times. For some odd reason after reading the thread today about the person who thinks the Camino is not for everyone and seeing the fear that that can stir in some I thought with a slight chuckle maybe I should share my "backpack story". The topic would scare any future pilgrim BUT...if can read thru my poor typing using an Ipad for the first times (bought the day before my Camino)...it might shed some light on a few things. I feel this is where I should share never, not for a nano second on my Camino did I ever want to be anywhere else, I only hope my future Caminos feel the same.
1. What would you do if your backpack, the ONLY thing you own for five weeks comes up missing.
2. Would you be as stupid as I was to begin with to have it come up missing (really don't want to hear how stupid I was folks...just asking folks to think about it)
3. Would a calm come over you? It did me...
4. What would you purchase again IF you are physically put in the situation to RETHINK what you need WHILE on the Camino.
5. Most importantly each experience we have in life can change the rest of our experiences that we have. You can really see this on the Camino possibly more than any other place on Earth. If something happens to you and you are held up or pushed ahead your population changes etc... (we all spoke of this when Anne wrote about her Camino in an active thread over the summer). Had my backpack not come up missing there is a population of pilgrims that I love dearly that I never could have met.
My blog is not a good one. I had a lot of trouble typing from an IPad, was never a "texter" and had no idea how to embed my pictures into my blog. My words that I wanted to type were changed by the IPad so I do not find my blog a good read at all...BUT if you can hang in there on this one day's post of it you might find this an interesting thought to entertain.
http://shefollowsshells.blogspot.com/2012_09_23_archive.html
and for the ladies...I will see if I can find a way to embed a picture for the end of the story
1. What would you do if your backpack, the ONLY thing you own for five weeks comes up missing.
2. Would you be as stupid as I was to begin with to have it come up missing (really don't want to hear how stupid I was folks...just asking folks to think about it)
3. Would a calm come over you? It did me...
4. What would you purchase again IF you are physically put in the situation to RETHINK what you need WHILE on the Camino.
5. Most importantly each experience we have in life can change the rest of our experiences that we have. You can really see this on the Camino possibly more than any other place on Earth. If something happens to you and you are held up or pushed ahead your population changes etc... (we all spoke of this when Anne wrote about her Camino in an active thread over the summer). Had my backpack not come up missing there is a population of pilgrims that I love dearly that I never could have met.
My blog is not a good one. I had a lot of trouble typing from an IPad, was never a "texter" and had no idea how to embed my pictures into my blog. My words that I wanted to type were changed by the IPad so I do not find my blog a good read at all...BUT if you can hang in there on this one day's post of it you might find this an interesting thought to entertain.
http://shefollowsshells.blogspot.com/2012_09_23_archive.html
and for the ladies...I will see if I can find a way to embed a picture for the end of the story
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