- Time of past OR future Camino
- CF (X3), VDLP, Madrid ‘12-‘22
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So I think you are a seasoned pilgrim when you no longer gleam, no longer smell and your body no longer has any soft edges.When a stream of 100km pilgrims began to arrive, it struck me. The new pilgrims were clean, they all smelled of some sort of applied scent, and even the fit ones looked soft. We long distance pilgrims were none of these. We may not have been dirty, but we had been wearing the same walking clothes for the past three weeks, no-one I knew applied scent, and all of us had lost those soft edges.
I realised a day later that it was the brightness of the 100km pilgrim´s clothing. We long distance pilgrims had been doing our laundry with whatever soap came to hand, and had none of the benefits that modern laundry detergent brings to making clothes look bright. Our clothing was dull!
Hear, hear!...when you realise that being thankful for little things is a most important part of each day,
Al, you are indeed an optimist to think that merely dreaming of the Camino is enough to be a seasoned pilgrimAl the optimist said:When the first thing you think of when you wake up in the morning (and during the night) is Camino and your dreams are about it as well.
Lise T said:When you go into a shop to get christmas presants and come out with a x-large quick dry towell marked down from $50 to $15 at Katmandu and pack it away ready for your next Camino. (SCORE!!)Then you leave the store forgetting what your intended purpose of going in there was. :roll:
LTfit said:Hear, hear!...when you realise that being thankful for little things is a most important part of each day,
...when you feel absolute joy seeing that first yellow arrow.
Oceanroc7 said:Say "Buen Camino" to a weather-beater stranger with a rucksack weeks after you get back home to England. And don't feel foolish afterwards.
Hammam said:...when you decide to spend at last a quiet night in a nice double room, and find yourself missing all the snorring sounds of fellow pilgrims in the dormitories....
gabolga said:Don't care any more if you ever arrive at your destination or not. The true meaning of Pilgrimage is in the walk and not in the destination.
Welcome to the Forum. Two years ago I was exactly where you are now - planning my Camino. It's a wonderful journey, and the best part is .... it continues ...As a pilgrim wannabe, Sept 2014, I gotta say THIS was my favorite thread- I've read this forum day and night since I discovered it Jan 1st. Very addictive! I went test-driving boots today just to make it more real...... T minus 8 months.....
Terry
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