{"id":14483,"date":"2023-08-16T12:08:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T19:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=14483"},"modified":"2023-08-16T12:24:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T19:24:30","slug":"via-podiensis-almost-to-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/via-podiensis-almost-to-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"Via Podiensis: Almost to the Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>oday the Lord saw fit to begin my pilgrimage with an exercise in humility, patience, and trust. As I write this I am on an air-conditioned train racing the sunset to Le Puy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I flew standby from Heathrow to Lyon, arriving approximately six hours after I had intended. It was a near thing: I didn&#8217;t know I was going to have a seat on the plane until boarding had already started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">French customs and passport control was remarkably efficient, and I was headed to the train station within 30 minutes of landing. I took light rail into the city where I bought new hiking poles before returning to the city train station and catching the train to the town of Saint Etienne. There, I changed trains to the one currently taking me (and at least five French pilgrims) to Le Puy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve missed dinner at the seminary I&#8217;m staying at, but I&#8217;m grateful to be here at all.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God is good.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Date:<\/strong>&nbsp;16 August 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Place:<\/strong>\u00a0en route to Le Puy-en-Velay (Prefecture of Haute-Loire, Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes, France)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_6027-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_6027-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_6027-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_6027-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_6027-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_6027-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_6027.jpeg 1872w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_6031-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_6031-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_6031-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_6031-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_6031-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_6031-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_6030-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_6030-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_6030-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_6030-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_6030-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_6030-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Lord saw fit to begin my pilgrimage with an exercise in humility, patience, and trust. As I write this I am on an air-conditioned train racing the sunset to Le Puy. I flew standby from Heathrow to Lyon, arriving approximately six hours after I had intended. It was a near thing: I didn&#8217;t know I was going to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pilgrim-reports","category-via-podiensis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14483"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14490,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14483\/revisions\/14490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}