Day 10 on the Camino Way
An Encouraging Kite As we finished today’s hike one of the pilgrims on the journey with us stood near the trail and flew a kite. As silly as this might sound, it was the kind of distraction that made the last mile or so easier. Funny what a little gesture can do. The kite flyer told us he does ...
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Day 9 on the Camino Way
Miles to Go The sign post is pointing us to our final destination—Santiago. 581 kilometers which is 361 miles. Today we walked 13 miles so now we are 348 miles from the prize. And what exactly is the prize? What Sally and I set out to do was to walk this together. Finishing isn’t the primary ...
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Day 8 on the Camino Way
This represents what some folks think of my writings, and I can see it both ways. There is a lot of bull that gets slung in these posts, but it also takes balls to put yourself out there. Speaking of Bull When you think about the development of Christianity in the 1st Century you need to ...
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Day 7 on the Camino Way
382 miles to go—give or take! As I sit in the hotel lobby this morning writing this, I think about the question several of you have asked: Why are you doing this? It’s impossible to say really. In 2007, when we first heard of El Camino, we were living in Jerusalem. A friend of ours talked about ...
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Day 6 on the Camino Way
We Feed the World I’m originally from Iowa. Iowa farmers know how to farm. They can grow stuff—corn and beans, especially. If you ask a Northwest Iowa farmer what he does, he’ll says something like—“I feed the world.” And he’d be right, of course. However, what I’ve ...
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Day 5 on the Camino Way
From our starting point in St Jean Pied de Port to Santiago it is 775km—about 482 miles. Today we passed this sign which declares that we have 676kms to go—420 miles. So five days in we’ve walked about 70 miles—I’m adding in the 7 or so miles we walked from this sign to our hotel for the ...
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Day 4 on The Camino Way
Some days you just grind through. You are tired and hurting in some way or another—physically, emotionally or maybe mentally or spiritually. You just have no energy for what lies ahead of you, but you have to get some things done. Today was a day like that for all five of us. We have been ...
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