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This Broken World…..

Today, I am reminded of how I felt eight years ago, when the Gods of Democracy handed the US operating system to a demigod….a lesser being. In another time and maybe another world, this would have been a newly elected president – Republican or Democrat – it wouldn’t have mattered, the system would have been

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Another Camino?

Today is the first day I realized that I am directed by forces beyond my control – for October anyway. Today, I rationalized an excuse to walk the Camino France´s. It really wasn’t “me,” though. It was that same force that seeded itself inside my brain last September to walk my first Camino, the Portuguese

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Post Camino

OK. I’ve been home now for almost two months I haven’t posted because there were several directives from the Camino that had to be fulfilled. Please let me explain. When I first decided to walk a Camino, I knew I wanted answers to a number of questions that required some thought and some introspection. The

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Camino #57 – Porto

Taking the bus to Porto was fairly uneventful. Yesterday I planned to take a taxi to the bus station. I couldn’t even think of walking 1.5kms and figuring out where the terminal was. This morning I was, OK, I can do this. It’s just as well because no one was at the desk at 8:30

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Camino #55 Santiago

I arrived in the square in front of the Cathedral at 10:30am after a 7:00am start from the hostal in Faramelo. I was heading out with Carolina, the older Dutch woman and the retired Australian couple. It was dark. I had my headlamp and someone had a flashlight. There were some street lamps, but some

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Camino #53 – Padron

Today I walked 22kms. I had planned to walk just 15, but the hostel, I was hoping to book for the night was no where to be found. I had to press on. There were ascents, but they were more gradual. The challenge with this walk was the loose stones going down hill. I’m averaging

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