Appreciate learning from your experiences. This line can really silence a bunch of potential excuses from one's inner critic: "Last year, nearly 200 people in wheelchairs completed a Camino."
Right?! The man I met on my first Camino doing it on his forearm crutches--that was the morning I woke up and couldn't put any weight on one of my feet. I wondered how I'd manage. . . I figured it out and then met him. . . talk about inspiring!
Thank you for this! I’m deciding which Camino I want to do and I’m very excited. My maternal grandfather’s side is from Galicia (Vigo) & I’m sure none of them did this 😂 but hopefully the ancestors will be with me.
Great post, Rebecca, I love how you make it accessible for all. I have just started wild camping in my fifties in order to be able to go on affordable pilgrimages in England. But you never know, one day maybe the great Camino! I wrote a post about my preparations if anyone is interested and I hope you don't mind me sharing it here, in case any one else wants to do the pilgrimage carrying it on their back. Thanks again for sharing, Rebecca and have a great day :) Mark
I walked 160 miles from St Jean Pied de Port to Burgos a few years ago alone. I am now 70 and longing to walk again… maybe the Portugal or the one through France. I was healing from the fracture and implosion of a 30 plus year friendship and was a husk of a person from the pain of it ( and the insensitivity of someone I once called “ my North Star”).It did not heal me all the way, but definitely set me on the path of believing in my own worth again.
I am better for walking it, and want to walk again now that I am feeling healed and even grateful for leaving that friend behind.
Thank you for your reflections, Cindy. It is a good reminder that a walk across Spain is not necessarily going to make everything better, but certainly gives us the time and space to start that process of healing.
There are many that go to the place they last left on the Camino and continue on. Whatever you decide, I wish you a Buen Camino.
It is my heartfelt wish that anyone who desires to walk the Camino de Santiago knows just how open it is to so many. I appreciate you adding your voice to this conversation. Buen Camino, wherever you are.
The examples of different lifestyles you provide are so good. I can definitely see myself wanting to go through this experience!
Thanks, Josh!
This is great! How inspiring!
Appreciate learning from your experiences. This line can really silence a bunch of potential excuses from one's inner critic: "Last year, nearly 200 people in wheelchairs completed a Camino."
Right?! The man I met on my first Camino doing it on his forearm crutches--that was the morning I woke up and couldn't put any weight on one of my feet. I wondered how I'd manage. . . I figured it out and then met him. . . talk about inspiring!
Amazing determination!
Thank you for this! I’m deciding which Camino I want to do and I’m very excited. My maternal grandfather’s side is from Galicia (Vigo) & I’m sure none of them did this 😂 but hopefully the ancestors will be with me.
Glad you found it helpful! Buen Camino!
Great post, Rebecca, I love how you make it accessible for all. I have just started wild camping in my fifties in order to be able to go on affordable pilgrimages in England. But you never know, one day maybe the great Camino! I wrote a post about my preparations if anyone is interested and I hope you don't mind me sharing it here, in case any one else wants to do the pilgrimage carrying it on their back. Thanks again for sharing, Rebecca and have a great day :) Mark
https://www.whichwayhow.com/p/wild-camping?r=3kch7a
Love this, Mark. Thank you for sharing. Looking forward to seeing you in the Camino someday:)
I walked 160 miles from St Jean Pied de Port to Burgos a few years ago alone. I am now 70 and longing to walk again… maybe the Portugal or the one through France. I was healing from the fracture and implosion of a 30 plus year friendship and was a husk of a person from the pain of it ( and the insensitivity of someone I once called “ my North Star”).It did not heal me all the way, but definitely set me on the path of believing in my own worth again.
I am better for walking it, and want to walk again now that I am feeling healed and even grateful for leaving that friend behind.
Buen Camino!
Thank you for your reflections, Cindy. It is a good reminder that a walk across Spain is not necessarily going to make everything better, but certainly gives us the time and space to start that process of healing.
There are many that go to the place they last left on the Camino and continue on. Whatever you decide, I wish you a Buen Camino.
It is my heartfelt wish that anyone who desires to walk the Camino de Santiago knows just how open it is to so many. I appreciate you adding your voice to this conversation. Buen Camino, wherever you are.