Ten Years Ago Today

Ten years ago today, I got on an airplane to go to a country I’d never been before. I didn’t speak the language. And I was going to walk 500 miles across the country, mostly alone. The plan was to meet up with Francine in León, which is more than halfway to Santiago, a couple of weeks into the walk. […]

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Camino Photo of the Day: Tattoo

May you have a happy feast of Saint James! For today’s photo of the day, I thought we’d do something special. Many years ago, I posted here about the Camino tattoo that I planned to get someday. Well, “someday” happened this year in Santiago. Thanks to Callie actually scheduling for us, all three of us got some ink to commemorate […]

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02 May

May the second looms large in my life. On this day in 2013, Francine and I walked into Santiago de Compostela for the first time, at the end of our first Camino. At this point, Francine had been walking for almost two weeks, and me for more than a month. I can’t describe the joy of that day. Arrival in […]

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Three May Seconds

May the second looms large in my life. On this day in 2013, Francine and I walked into Santiago de Compostela for the first time, at the end of our first Camino. At this point, Francine had been walking for almost two weeks, and me for more than a month. I can’t describe the joy of that day. Arrival in […]

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Camino Photo of the Day: the Sign for Santiago

Today, we’re doing something a little different. Every Camino, we’ve posed at this marker. I’m not actually sure what it’s meant to signify, since we are still many kilometers from the city limits. Furthermore, I strongly suspect that due to highway construction, the marker was moved sometime between 2016 and 2018. If not, they certainly chopped down that little tree. […]

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