Alpine Lakes Wilderness Hiking

Over the past few days, Francine and I have been hiking with our friend Callie out near Leavenworth in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness. We hiked 16 kilometers over rough ground at altitude on two back-to-back days. It’s been awhile since I’ve hiked 32km! Needless to say, this has had an enormous effect on our “virtual Camino“. In fact, we almost […]

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Innkeeper’s Apprentices

Ever since we returned from our first Camino in 2013, Francine and I have been taken with the idea of serving as hospitaleros. These are the folks who staff the albergues along the Way. Except in the private albergues, the hospitaleros normally work in two or three week shifts. They staff various municipal, parroquial (and monastic) and association albergues throughout […]

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Preparations

We leave for Spain on Tuesday, and we’ve definitely entered into scramble mode. Equipment purchases, refinements, and testing has gone on for months, but it always seems like there’s something breaking or not working at the last minute. Our rigourous training schedule has gone by the boards this week due to increasingly frantic work pressures. And of course, there’s always […]

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One Month to Go

Just thirty days from now, Francine and I will be boarding an airplane for Spain to begin our third Camino. While this one will be quite a bit shorter than the others – two weeks as opposed to six – that doesn’t make it any less meaningful. This is a spiritual journey, as well as a physical one, and who […]

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