Camino II — Day 4
Long Live Freedom I saw this on the window of a childcare center in one of the towns we walked through. My feeling is that whoever wrote that in that particular place is thinking about the children inside. That person hopes that the freedoms won on April 25, 1974 — Liberation Day in Portugal ...
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Camino II — Day 3
Mother and Child Show The Way This is, of course, Madonna and child. Mother Mary holds a light while baby Jesus points the way of the Camino, and gives the open palm welcome sign. Nice! It reminds me of the sculpture on the top of Notre Dame in Jerusalem. Mary is holding baby Jesus and Jesus is ...
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Camino II — Day 2
210 to Go! (130 miles) As you can see, and this is often the case, the twins have their own thing going. But the rest of us are with the program. I think this is true, but you can decide for yourself — the people you walk through life with tell you a bit about yourself. I’m trying to ...
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Camino II — Day 1
Easy Way Walking Today we walked a little over 17 miles. I’m not going to lie — I can feel it. Some of the path was easy, boring even. For the first seven miles, We walked on board walk with the sea on our left. It was just putting one foot in front of the other, a little like daily life for ...
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Camino II — We Begin
Yep, that Saint James, the patron saint that we will be walking with on the Camino — starting today — 4/29. We look ready, right? What awaits? We don’t know! And that’s the beauty of this. We’ll feel things we didn’t think we would, or maybe even could. We’re see things that we ...
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Camino II — All The “Lovely” People
Where Do They All Come From? One of the beautiful gifts in traveling, especially to Europe, is variety of people. It’s a little like what Sally and I remember of walking in the Old City, Jerusalem. There are so many people speaking so many different languages. And there are dozens of ...
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Camino II — Maybe a little too much Mary?
Mary On Display and for Sale Mary is everywhere here, as she was in the cathedrals and churches in Spain where Sally and I walked in 2022. Now, I like Mary, so a lot of Mary is mostly okay with me, not that being okay with me is any kind of requirement for anyone’s thinking on anything, ...
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