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July 10, 2019
As a former Boy Scout, I have been indoctrinated with their laconic motto “Be Prepared.” If you are planning on hiking the Camino or the Way of Saint James to Compostela in Spain, it behooves you to indulge in a bit of Boy Scout-like preparation. Gear, including clothing, should be considered way in advance, if anything to see how much […]
July 7, 2019
Sitting in the hotel lobby, the words of Con Sweeney, my elementary school friend and consultant, reverberated in my brain, “You may not see it now but eventually these things will thread together.” He was referring to several part-time jobs that had followed me into retirement. The prophecy relating to my prospects had come about during our weekly Skype venting […]
June 8, 2019
Well, you’ve landed on the right blog. The historic Camino de Santiago or “The Way” (as in the actor, Martin Sheen’s 2010 movie) is a long hike—some 500 miles to be exact. The Camino Frances or French Camino is the most popular pilgrimage route beginning in the Basque Pyrenees in France and concluding in Santiago de Compostela in the northwest […]