Walking the Camino de Santiago
May you have a happy feast of Saint James! For today’s photo of the day, I thought we’d do something special. Many years ago, I posted here about the Camino tattoo that I planned to get someday. Well, “someday” happened this year in Santiago. Thanks to Callie actually scheduling for us, all three of us got some ink to commemorate […]
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These sorts of treacherous granite descents (and ascents!) are not uncommon on the Camino. Francine calls them dragon spines. This particular one just as you’re leaving Riego de Ambrós is definitely one of the more challenging. It looks nice enough in this photo, but in 2016 it had been raining, and I slipped and fell. Date: 22 April 2013Place: leaving […]
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We’re back! Now that our 2022 Camino Primitivo is in the books, we return to our regularly scheduled look at our 2013 Camino Francés. When last we left, our dauntless pilgrims were were at Cruz de Ferro – the Iron Cross – one of the great moments for the pilgrim on this route. In today’s photo, we stand atop the […]
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May the second looms large in my life. On this day in 2013, Francine and I walked into Santiago de Compostela for the first time, at the end of our first Camino. At this point, Francine had been walking for almost two weeks, and me for more than a month. I can’t describe the joy of that day. Arrival in […]
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Fun fact: on this day back in 2016, Francine and I arrived in Rabanal. Today’s photo, however, is a look back at the village under the rising sun as we leave, heading for points farther west. Always, we journey to the West, but it’s important that you turn, from time to time, and reflect on where you’ve been and your […]
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This morning, halfway up a hill in downtown Tacoma, we arrived in virtual Oviedo. We have been walking our virtual Camino del Norte for months, and we have now arrived at the place where it transitions into the Camino Primitivo. Of course, in a little over three weeks we will fly to the real city of Oviedo to walk the […]
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Yesterday, Francine and I reached a crossroads on our continuing virtual Camino del Norte. I should explain that we have been recording the distance of our daily hikes into a tracking sheet – one square for every kilometer on the Camino del Norte, which begins in the Basque city of Irún. By my count, we’re at 478km. This was a […]
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With our Camino Primitivo adventure just 55 days away now, Francine and I have made some adjustments to our walking schedule. We walk 5 – 8 kilometers most days, and on weekends we usually plan for one longer walk in the 12 kilometer range. The big change so far? We’re doing those walks with fully loaded packs now. It’s definitely […]
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I rarely post landscape photos, mostly because I’m not great at taking them. Nevertheless, I hope this image gets across the sheer beauty of the Spanish Meseta – the great fields of green and the endless sky of blue above. On the horizon, you can see the Cantabrian Mountains that we’ll be crossing through on our Camino Primitivo in May. […]
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Back in December of 2019, I posted some noodlings about the call of the Camino and where we might walk next. While both of the options I discussed there are still very much in our future plans, a more immediate Camino adventure calls: the Camino Primitivo. Francine and I have been talking about this particular Camino for close to a […]
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