Walking the Camino de Santiago
Date: 2 Septiembre 2023 Place: Logroño Last night the thunder and lightning started at dinner. It added to the ambience of a crowded table, full of pilgrims who were laughing, eating, and being present for each other. Unfortunately, I didn’t sleep very well. I ended up only falling asleep sometime after 2 AM, possibly three. I tried not to look […]
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The alarm woke me up at 6:30 and I was out of bed in a shot. Becky was already up… since 4am. Date: 1 Septiembre 2023 Place: Logroño Sometimes we women just don’t sleep. I hope she gets to bed early. We need all of our energy every day. I said Buen Camino to the last pilgrims at 8:00am. Then […]
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Morning brought adventures for these two tiny hospitaleras Date: 31 August 2023 Place: Madrid y Logroño The night proved a bit noisy and both Becky and I both had done sleep challenges. But we got up at 6:30am and packed up. We were out by 7:30 and to the bus station by 8:10 having our breakfast. The lovely inn keeper […]
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Date: 30 August 2023 Place: Madrid Ever get woken up from a dead sleep to hear “…doctor, emt, on the plane please come to aisle…” and realize you need to get up out of your seat because the person next to you has also sprung to life and must answer the call? That was new. We got to Madrid! It […]
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Today Becky and I headed to Spain! Date: 29 August 2023 Place: in transit And the “oh sh*t” moment today was realizing at 9:07 that my 9:05 pickup was for September 29. Not August. But Uber and God had me covered and I was in an Über in 5 minutes. While in the terminal I cancelled the outbound shuttle and […]
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The cats have cottoned to the impending departure. Date: 27 August 2023 Place: Pistachio House They are not pleased. They go from super needy to clingy to aloof to emo. I am tackling the things that are on my to-do list that are just sort of… if you have the time: Roast coffee so i don’t have to when I […]
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Today is repacking day… Date: 26 August 2023 Place: Pistachio House I am going to serve as an hospitalera for the first time since my pre-pandemic training by the delightful Daniel De Kay and marvelous Martha Crites (yes, the author). Speaking of the quinceña (15 days of service)… I will be serving with the amazing Becky Rush-Peet who I met […]
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Y’all It has been a day and it’s not even lunchtime. Date: 16 August 2023 Place: Pistachio House I am really trying to blog but I am out of practice. Bear with me as I catch you up… because reasons. 5am. Awake. See a plethora of messages from Thom about missed connections. Once again… he pledges never to fly through […]
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In which Thom is off to France and Francine begins her countdown. Date: 15 August 2023 Place: Pistachio House It is the feast of the Assumption. Today I bid Thom au revoir et bon chemin as I dropped him off at the airport after holy Mass. Then I went on a search for some boba tea and some Daiso shopping […]
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Today we walked our last 8km together before Thom heads to France. For the next two weeks my mind will now focus on the me portion of this adventure. Focus will be on Increasing my speaking of Spanish and rudimentary Portuguese. I am pretty confident with listening of both at my levels but cannot get over the speaking shyness. Me? Shy? […]
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