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Trail Angels

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DwainS

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Camino Frances(2020)
I remember reading a while back about Trail Angels on Camino Frances. While today May 18 I was walking from SJPP to Burgete. When I got to Roncevalles I was beat and thinking about taking a taxi the last Kim’s to Burgete. This Spanish gentleman seen me and came running over and said are you alright. I just said I need a taxi. His wife came over and pulled my pack off my back. Then another Spanish gentleman came over and said do you need medical attention. I said no just a taxi to Burgete. Then the man and his wife threw me into there car and drove me to Burgete. They would take no money and each have me a hug and drove off. That made a bad day fantastic.
 
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On the Camino Mozarabe in March I was taking a short nap on a wide wall along the Camino. My nap was interrupted when a man from a nearby house presented my wife, son in law and me a HUGE bag of the sweetest oranges. Of course, due to the weight, we had to eat a lot of them immediately. Walking out of Ponferrada last fall I said Bon dia to a man cutting grapes off the arbor of his front porch. He stopped me cold, led me to the back of his car where he was putting the grapes, sorted out the very biggest bunch and handed it to me. Delicious but too many. Fortunately, several Mexican pilgrims were walking behind me and I was able to share. The Camino provides.
 
I think that in this rather cynical world we live in today that human kindness is one of those great and much needed qualities that most of us can appreciate regardless of when or where we experience it. I have found that “angels” tend to appear most unexpectedly at times of need whether on or off the Camino. A gift or blessing that I don’t take lightly! Buen Camino todos!
 
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To continue on this story, I was at the 5 km sign to Zubiri today and the Spanish gentlemen who asked me if I needed medical attention yesterday was also walking the Camino and seen me and came over and said you alright. I said yes and he are you sure and I nodded and he continued on his way. When I got to Zubiri this older Spanish man I did recognize seen me and came over to me and said you very bad yesterday you alright, and I said I’am fine. For these guys to see me a day later and still seem concerned for my health made another great day on the Camino.
 
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