- Time of past OR future Camino
- First one in 2005 from Moissac, France.
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David, thank you for this post. I am really happy to see how much positivity is being released into the atmosphere with your invitation to remember. I will take that idea out for a walk with me today and see what surfaces. Straight away, my mind went to the books I devoured on what kind of job to get as an adult. The one that took my fancy was the Almoner. I knew no Latin at that point, I just loved the taste of the word, and the job was about making life a bit easier for other people. I guess, although through a different medium - education - my job was/is about that too. As for adventure, my plan to take a one way ticket to Australia fell flat...what I am thinking right now, though, is this: I want every child to have the chance to have dreams, and realise them. What adventures will our ten year olds have by the time they have topped 70, like me?
sir to may it hay... que sera sera....As for ten year olds today - I am seventy and oh how I long to see the world in fifty years time!!
That was some race. I am planning about 120km over 6 days and feel so brave!When I was a teenager I was fascinated with stories of long walks. I read about a big race from John O'Groats to Lands End organized by Billy Butlin, a famous entrepreneur, to publicize his holiday camps. Most of all I read books by John Hillaby about his journeys. I remember reading his book "Journey through Europe" about walking from the English Channel to the Mediterranean. It seemed impossibly ambitious to me at the time. Three years ago when I walked the Via Francigena I was probably more excited at doing the same by reaching the coast of Tuscany than I was later on finally arriving in Rome.
PS. I've just refreshed my memory of the story of the Billy Butlin walking race. The winner covered the distance in a little over 14 days - an average of just under 100km per day. Through atrocious weather including blizzards and snowdrifts in the early stages. They made them tough in those days
Your post reminded me straight away of a long forgotten ‘dream’: walking along the banks of a river, fishing. Of course, someone else carrying my stuff and practical details like eating and sleeping were outside my responsibilities... in other words, being totally in the present and not a care in the world. Thanks for the reminder of an essential attitude, and a key one on the camino of life.A couple of heroes of mine once did a long walk to throw a ring into a volcano. I think their names were Frodo and Sam, but I could be mistaken.
Truthfully though, I have always loved the idea of walking until I didn't want to anymore, then laying up somewhere simple and just enjoying basic food with a glass or 6 of wine...my favourite books about this kind of simple life include The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Into the Wild and even Wild (by Cheryl Strayed). I haven't done my own Camino yet, but I'm very much looking forward to it.
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I also really connected with Michael Carradines character in the tv series 'Kung Fu'.He was a Shaolin priest/monk and wandered around the desert bare foot with simple clothes and took each day as it came -he was fit and strong & able to handle himself in hand to hand fighting if this became necessary -but otherwise he was quietly spoken & lived a gentle life in tune with nature and spiritual ethics and was on a continual spiritual and physical 'journey '.
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