{"id":84010,"date":"2014-04-28T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/one-year-ago-finding-our-groove\/"},"modified":"2015-03-05T00:41:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T08:41:45","slug":"one-year-ago-finding-our-groove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/one-year-ago-finding-our-groove\/","title":{"rendered":"One Year Ago: Finding our Groove"},"content":{"rendered":"

(from my journal)<\/p>\n

Portomar\u00edn
\n2<\/span>8 April<\/p>\n

So many pilgrims now.<\/p>\n

\n

That sentence was, in fact, my entire journal entry for today. <\/p>\n

Starting in Sarria, the number of pilgrims on the Way increases by tenfold. I saw more pilgrims today than I probably had on the entirety of the Camino so far.<\/p>\n

So there were new challenges. Chief among them were: dodging pilgrims, working out a new pilgrim-passing etiquette, and getting ahead of the large German tour group so that when we came to a bar it hadn’t been completely cleaned out.<\/p>\n

As for the walk, I’ll let the photos tell the story. Spoiler alert: it rained.<\/p>\n

\"Starting<\/a><\/p>\n

Starting out in Sarria.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Convento de la Magdalena<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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At the 100km Milestone<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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More day 27 photos!<\/a><\/p>\n

(Originally posted to Pilgrims on the Way<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(from my journal) Portomar\u00edn 28 April So many pilgrims now. That sentence was, in fact, my entire journal entry for today. Starting in Sarria, the number of pilgrims on the Way increases by tenfold. I saw more pilgrims today than I probably had on the entirety of the Camino so far. So there were new challenges. Chief among them were: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camino"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-lR0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":106912,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/blessing-of-the-pilgrims-2022\/","url_meta":{"origin":84010,"position":0},"title":"Blessing of the Pilgrims, 2022","author":"Thom","date":"04 May 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Francine and I received the pilgrims' blessing from Rev. 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