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Camino de Santiago Day 7: Los Arcos to Logroño 28 kilometers 17.4 miles Anna’s last day of walking was our longest day yet. A bit daunted by the distance, we decided to get up and hike in the dark. We left at 6:15, after downing a cup of coffee and some toast at La Casa …
Camino de Santiago Day 6: Estella to Los Arcos 21.5 kilometers 13.5 miles We had coffee at our hostel before heading out on Day 6 from Estrella to Los Arcos. The day before, we enjoyed getting out early and doing most of the walking in the morning, but this stage was going to be our …
Camino de Santiago Day 5: Puenta la Reina to Estella 22 kilometers 14 miles We started early on our way from Puente la Reina to Estella to get ahead of the heat, and we were proud of ourselves for leaving in the dark. But then a coffee shop was open and the chocolate croissants were calling …
Camino de Santiago Day 4: Pamplona to Puente la Reina 23 kilometers 14.3 miles It was going to be a hot one on the walk from Pamplona to Puenta La Reina. At least that’s what we’d heard (and seen), so we set an intention to get our earliest yet start. Let’s try for walking by 7, …
Camino de Santiago Day 3: Zubiri to Pamplona 20.5 kilometers 13 miles It was still dark when I woke up from my best night of sleep so far on the Camino. I wrapped a blanket around my shoulders and went out to sit on our balcony under the stars. A little tiny sliver of a …
Day 2: Roncesvalles to Zubiri 22 kilometers 14 miles An alarm went off nearby at 5:30. I think it belonged to two young guys from Florence in the pod next door who then began to try to get ready quietly in the dark. I crawled out of my bunk and Anna asked me what time …
27 kilometers 15 miles At 6am someone’s alarm went off in the room where we were sleeping. No. Shhh Shhh Shhh.. I heard a man say to his alarm as he turned it off and went back to sleep.Now awake after a fitful night of sleep, I stuffed my sleeping bag liner into it’s tony pouch …
Camino de Santiago: Arrival in St Jean Pied-de-Port I stepped off the bus after its arrival in St Jean Pied-de-Port and immediately walked up into a small park that overlooked the road. I found an empty bench above the vineyard covered hills and sat down to breathe in the presence of this place I’ve …
Shenandoah National Park A little over two years ago, (before the pandemic was even a whisper) Taido and I drove to Pennsylvania to attend the wedding of a dear friend. On the way there, we took a slight detour to take in the sights of Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park. It was early April …
Learning to Smell Again after losing my sense of taste and smell from Covid. It’s been three months since my Covid test came back positive. In an attempt to write about the experience of having Coronavirus, I have been reviewing my journals. And dear goodness, there were some dark moments in there. I don’t think …
Maybe you were “supposed” to be somewhere else right now, but instead you are at working from home or doing school from home, or you are doing a job where you have to wear a mask all the time. Probably, in some way, your life has changed drastically over the last several months. Something is …
A pilgrimage is a journey, often into an unknown or foreign place, where a person goes in search of new or expanded meaning about the self, others, nature, or a higher good, through the experience. -Wikipedia I’ve been reading and thinking lately about the idea of pilgrimage. I love to go for a walk, but …
Snapshots of Burgos, Spain. or The End of the Journey. This post is from the end of our walk from Logrono to Burgos, Spain. You can read more posts from this walk, or from other Camino trips. In my longtime obsession with the Camino, I have read quite a bit about the different cities that you …
Atapuerca to Burgos 19 kilometers. Day 7 on The Camino. Or We Made It! Let’s Have A PARTY and Eat All The Things. This post is our trip log from Atapuerca to Burgos. You can read more posts from this walk, or from other Camino trips. We got up and packed fast, walking out …
Villafranca to Atapuerca. 18 kilometers. Day 6 on The Camino. Or Remember That One Time We Slept In A Barn. This post is our trip log from Villafranca to Atapuerca. You can read more posts from this walk, or from other Camino trips. One of the reasons our albergue in Villafranca was full, besides …
Belorado to Villafranca Montes de Oca. 12 kilometers. Day 5 on The Camino. Or We Walked In The Snow But This Day Was Still My Favorite. This post is our trip log from Belorado to Villafranca Montes de Oca. You can read more posts from this walk, or from other Camino trips. We got out …
Santo Domingo de la Calzada to Belorado. 22 kilometers. Day 4 on The Camino. Or Thank God It’s Not Raining. This post is our trip log from Santo Domingo to Belorado. You can read more posts from this walk, or from other Camino trips. We had a little coffee and breakfast before starting out around …
Najera to Santo Domingo de la Calzada. 21 kilometers. Day 3 on The Camino. Or We Only Thought It Was Raining Yesterday. This post is our trip log from Najera to Santo Domingo de la Calzada. You can read more posts from this walk, or from other Camino trips. We had decided at dinner the …
Navarrete to Najera. 18 kilometers, Day 2 on The Camino Or It rained and then the sun came out. This post is our trip log from Navarrete to Najera. You can read more posts from this walk, or from other Camino trips. Some nights of sleep are so bad that you are just relieved to wake …
Logrono to Navarrete. At 12 kilometers, Day 1 on The Camino could also be titled: Let’s Ease Into This, Shall We? We didn’t wake up early in Logrono. It was probably around 10am when we walked out of our little flat in Logrono and stepped onto the Camino. We knew we were starting with a …