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Let me be the first one to wish you Happy Birthday!50 years ago tomorrow was my 21st birthday. I can't remember but undoubtedly I was celebrating in Venezuela, where I was for the summer, back when that country seemed to have a promising future.
50 years ago my Camino was looming. A 5000 mile drive from Dubia back to Manchester UK. My next Camino is looming. My wife and I start to Ingles in a couple of weeks. Bruce and Margaret.Peace sisters and brothers
Anyone on this forum that participated at Woodstock Festival exactly 50 years ago? What are your memories if you would be willing to share them?
I know that's not directly related to Camino de Santiago but at that time it surely was your Camino
You drove?50 years ago my Camino was looming. A 5000 mile drive from Dubia back to Manchester UK. My next Camino is looming. My wife and I start to Ingles in a couple of weeks. Bruce and Margaret.
Just a nobaby.I was very unborn.
Well, yeah, it was kind of a pilgrimage as some described it. Like there was 400k pilgrims in one place. Imagine 400.000 Compostelas issued in just three days
Time for @t2andreo to chime in
Peace sisters and brothers
Anyone on this forum that participated at Woodstock Festival exactly 50 years ago? What are your memories if you would be willing to share them?
I know that's not directly related to Camino de Santiago but at that time it surely was your Camino
Peace sisters and brothers
Anyone on this forum that participated at Woodstock Festival exactly 50 years ago? What are your memories if you would
today I am 72 and in under 3 weeks will be on Camino (Burgos/Ponferrada) for my 6th time.Three weeks time......50 years ago....I was leaving my summertime hotel job (it closed for the winter) and being unable to find any other work in those times in Ireland I took the emigrant trail to England,never to live in Ireland again.So many places on the Camino are so similar to where I grew up in Ireland I am transported back to my youth.Peace sisters and brothers
Anyone on this forum that participated at Woodstock Festival exactly 50 years ago? What are your memories if you would be willing to share them?
I know that's not directly related to Camino de Santiago but at that time it surely was your Camino
Yeah, dang David. If you only knew how many people were so darn set on hearing you could have been there and made sure that they could have.But the crowds and traffic were so bad that I arrived two hours late ..... dang!
True dat, Bala!I had just graduated from high school and Could Not Wait to head off to college in a few weeks. I was working some dull summer job that I can't even remember now, and was vaguely aware of a huge music festival going on in upstate New York. How could I not be? They were constantly announcing on the radio to stay home, the site was packed, cars were lined up for hours, don't try to come here, you'll never get in, the toilets are overflowing..... and on and on and on.
I wondered why anyone would even want to go there in the first place. After all, the Beatles weren't playing.
I did. But this time I am walking.You drove?
I guess you've trained through Slovenia also while in Yugoslavia?Fifty years ago, I was in my early twenties and that summer I was in Europe for three months, hitchhiking with a boyfriend in England, the Netherlands & Denmark, and then travelling on my own with a Eurail Pass in Norway, Germany, Italy, and Yugoslavia. There was a photo of Woodstock on the front page of the newspaper when we were in Amsterdam and we knew that we would have been there if we weren’t in Europe. The summer of 1969 was the first of several wonderful trips to Europe, including a year in Paris. Then in 2011, I discovered the Camino Frances, and the rest is history.
Wow, Marylynn, what a colorful life you have had in your youth! It would be interesting to hear your stories...lucky are those who have met you on your Camino walks and possibly heard of some of your adventures!Fifty years ago, I was in my early twenties and that summer I was in Europe for three months, hitchhiking with a boyfriend in England, the Netherlands & Denmark, and then travelling on my own with a Eurail Pass in Norway, Germany, Italy, and Yugoslavia. There was a photo of Woodstock on the front page of the newspaper when we were in Amsterdam and we knew that we would have been there if we weren’t in Europe. The summer of 1969 was the first of several wonderful trips to Europe, including a year in Paris. Then in 2011, I discovered the Camino Frances, and the rest is history.
I have watched a number of documentaries about Woodstock and I wouldn't mind the chaos at all with all those musicians. I only have the opportunity to see Ten Years After (the guitar player and leader of the band Alvin Lee was called the fastest guitar still well into 80s) live but more than 10 years after Woodstock
I'm Going Home is still one of my top10 songs and the Woodstock version is the longest. Just wow!!!
Do you know that because of the chaos somehow Richie Havens came first to the site and was asked (even without bass guitarist stucked on the road) to perform as first although he was announced to play later?
And that he improvised Freedom on the spot? Just sooooo awesome!
Ah, August Bank Holiday! I was hitch-hiking around Europe and bumped into a young Dutch guy who had just come back from the IoW festival. He was wearing army fatigues, had a CND/peace medallion ☮ around his neck and had what is now know as a "hipster" beard.Wasn't just Woodstock that year. In the UK we had the Bob Dylan Isle of Wight festival. I was a young and fairly well known hippy poet then and the two brothers who financed and organised it offered me to go on stage, do a five or ten minute set of my poetry and then introduce Dylan onto the stage - I said yes of course!!
But the crowds and traffic were so bad that I arrived two hours late ..... dang! (etc) - now that could have been life-changing I guess
I wish. But I was at the first Glastonbury festival. It was about 1500 people camping in a field, and you could collect fresh milk from the farmhouse in the morning! I was only 16 at the time and I told my Mum I was staying with a friend. I was, it was just that it was in a tent in a fieldPeace sisters and brothers
Anyone on this forum that participated at Woodstock Festival exactly 50 years ago? What are your memories if you would be willing to share them?
I know that's not directly related to Camino de Santiago but at that time it surely was your Camino
For those stateside PBS is running Woodstock documentaries this week.
Check your local listings.
Another tidbit: Jimmy Hendrix was last up. Due to all the rain, most participants had already left!
It also ran on the west coast in Canada... excellent!There is also a wonderful documentary on Woodstock on Netflix.
Exactly... and not only bombs, I can hear helicopters, gunfire, it's amazing piece of music history, just amazing how someone can translate the feelings into right-hand guitar played with left hand (upside-down), ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhAnd his "Star Spangled Banner" created quite the stir! You could hear the bombs! Still gives me goosebumps!
Not to be a downer but I was at FOB Marie with the US Army in Vietnam. Just weeks before the passing of Ho Chi Minh. Anyway my brother was on his way to Woodstock with friends and got stuck on the NY thruway. He wrote me and I had a laugh of his stories and actually never getting there. I still love the music although we didn’t get to hear it till at least six months later. Today I have finished three Camino’s and am now planning another. I have found something I love about this along with many other things. Peace & Love, Joe B member Veterans for PeacePeace sisters and brothers
Anyone on this forum that participated at Woodstock Festival exactly 50 years ago? What are your memories if you would be willing to share them?
I know that's not directly related to Camino de Santiago but at that time it surely was your Camino
That has something to do with moon landings? There is a story here, methinks.Apollonian/Dionysiac dichotomy
Yep, and Jimmie Hendrix also could play the guitar behind his back.Exactly... and not only bombs, I can hear helicopters, gunfire, it's amazing piece of music history, just amazing how someone can translate the feelings into right-hand guitar played with left hand (upside-down), ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I have a friend, an actor, who can do this piece only with his lips and breath. Also amazing.
Do you know who can play the guitar with his teeth?Yep, and Jimmie Hendrix also could play the guitar behind his back.
No, tell me.Do you know who can play the guitar with his teeth?
He's often been rated the #1 guitar player of all time.Well, OK, many of them guitarists actually but I had this guy in mind:
Wasn't born yet. Not even conceived I'd say given that I was born on March 6th 1970. Or maybe just about the time of Woodstock. All my dad and mom can say is that it was scorching hot on that terrace in Benghazi, Libya, while... ahem...Kinky, weren't you just barely a babe in arms 50 years ago? You know a lot about Woodstock considering.
This has been a fun thread...hearing everyone's stories. Glad you started it.
You are still just a child.Wasn't born yet. Not even conceived I'd say given that I was born on March 6th 1970. Or maybe just about the time of Woodstock. All my dad and mom can say is that it was scorching hot on that terrace in Benghazi, Libya, while... ahem...
And you think I wouldn't???You are still just a child.I'd happily take 10+ years off my life.
But you were only age 12...I don't understand what you mean.And you think I wouldn't???
I would return in 1982 right now, no questions, no doubts, to do it all over again, the same way. It was crazy ride although without Woodstock
Yeah, that's when it all started. Don't want to expose myself completely here to explain itBut you were only age 12...I don't understand what you mean.
I was 16 years old and it was a hot summer in Dallas, when the mailman arrived with our Life magazine, and I read about the amazing events in upstate New York the week before. I can still remember marveling over that double page spread photo showing the crowds and the mud! But, the next year, 1970, when the Woodstock movie opened, I was transformed! I went in my old, shy self and came out feeling I had changed utterly. I am not a musician, I wish I were, but I carry music from that film (and the album) in my heart to this day. I was singing some of it as I walked the Meseta last year. "Freedom!"Peace sisters and brothers
Anyone on this forum that participated at Woodstock Festival exactly 50 years ago? What are your memories if you would be willing to share them?
I know that's not directly related to Camino de Santiago but at that time it surely was your Camino
Excuse me ...Wasn't born yet. Not even conceived I'd say given that I was born on March 6th 1970. Or maybe just about the time of Woodstock. All my dad and mom can say is that it was scorching hot on that terrace in Benghazi, Libya, while... ahem...
Really? Where if I may ask?...And the country was on the other side of the Iron Curtain.
[/QUOTE]My girlfriend, now married 49 years, and I I attended spur of the moment. We left Philadelphia with Barbara's cousin who was recently released from the US Marine Corps having served in Viet Nam.
Our generation endured the murders of JFK and Reverend Dr Martin Luther King, race riots, war protests but were buoyed by the Apollo mission, and the environmental movement. Arriving in the field at Bethel. New York was stupendous. Hot, humid, crowded but a palpable energy. We bumped into a genial guy, Wavy Gravy who gave directions. People shared food and water. We had a shower curtain and a bedspread for sleeping. Donnie, our Marine had an inflatable mattress and a poncho for cover. It rained but the euphoria of all the energy minimized any discomforts. Then of course there was the music.
We left and realized life doesn't't have to be ugly. All those people crowded together and getting along.
It was a chapter in our pilgrimage through life. Another chapter was arriving at Santiago Spain October, 5, 2018. Next chapter is the Atacama desert this September.
Buen Camino
Anyone on this forum that participated at Woodstock Festival exactly 50 years ago? What are your memories if you would be willing to share them?
I know that's not directly related to Camino de Santiago but at that time it surely was your Camino
Hi All,Peace sisters and brothers
Anyone on this forum that participated at Woodstock Festival exactly 50 years ago? What are your memories if you would be willing to share them?
I know that's not directly related to Camino de Santiago but at that time it surely was your Camino
I guess you've trained through Slovenia also while in Yugoslavia?
Preparing to be sacrificed on the altar of marriage. Viewing the prospect with mounting terror. Celebrate 50 years on 11 October.
De Colores
Bogong.
Hi, Marcia,Hi All,
My first time postingI was 19 with a new baby. An adventure for sure but nothing like what I have planned for my 70 birthday...waking the Camino!
Cool. Obviously she was thinking of youHi Kinky! Nothing to do with the subject of this thread, but with your post: My eldest granddaughter is interrailing and a few days ago she sent me this photo. This is the result of walking the Portugues last year from Porto to Santiago with my daughters and 6 of my 7 grandchildren (aged 10 to 18). Am trying to infect them with the bug I have been "suffering" from for 9 years now. I think I am succeeding.....
I'll second that.... 50 wonderful years , and I was 21 that August.Don't worry, it doesn't hurt!!!
Our 50 was last month. At the time of Woodstock we would be painting, decorating, gardening - Oh, and working.
Congrats in advance
Tio Tel
BTW, speaking of babies, the one I was holding in my photo was delivered by a nurse/midwife in the 24' travel trailer we lived in.Hi, Marcia,
An adventure as having a baby or having a baby & attending the Woodstock?
Don’t you go being amazed at anyone else, madam hippie!!! Looks like you have had quite a route to your caminos!BTW, speaking of babies, the one I was holding in my photo was delivered by a nurse/midwife in the 24' travel trailer we lived in.
Yes, I did! I got sidetracked doing some map research and forgot to reply. I found out that the train did go through Slovenia.I guess you've trained through Slovenia also while in Yugoslavia?
Latvia. But now I'm in Luxembourg.Really? Where if I may ask?
I am so sorry for your loss.I was 22 and my first baby was 10wks old,living in Scotland. Sadly that beautiful boy is now in Heaven.
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