{"id":10900,"date":"2021-03-15T17:29:51","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T00:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=10900"},"modified":"2021-03-15T17:36:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T00:36:26","slug":"we-were-born-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/we-were-born-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"“We Were Born for It”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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T<\/span>he Felisa<\/em> stamp has been described as “one of the most sought after on the camino<\/a>“. What’s odd about it is that Felisa isn’t a place. Felisa is a person. Or, rather, Felisa was<\/em> a person; she died in October 2002. She sat for many years at a weatherbeaten desk beside the Camino just before Logro\u00f1o, offering water, figs, a host of Camino trinkets and paraphernalia to pilgrims, as well as the opportunity to stamp their Pilgrim passport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The stamp mysteriously says \u201cFelisa \/ Higos \u2013 Aqua y Amor\u201d (Figs \u2013 Water, and love). Apparently figs are available during the season, but that’s in August, and we walked in the Spring. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Felisa’s death, her daughter Maria took up the job<\/a>. There’s a wonderful short (15 minute) film about her, where you can see a bit of her personality, as well as that of her dog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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