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Going Back to Uni (opens the original)
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Since finishing the Camino, one of the questions I’ve been asked most often is, “So, what’s your next journey?” I’ve hinted that there was one coming. Knowing this would follow only a few weeks after the Camino ended, I’ve thought about the juxtaposition for quite a while, even though the two aren’t really connected. I may eventually walk another Camino, but the next journey begins tomorrow. It won’t be a physical Camino, but perhaps a mental one - and at roughly five years, it will be considera
The Camino Journals: 490 Kilometers and a Single Thread (opens the original)
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Four hundred and ninety kilometers in one journey from Porto to Santiago, well beyond the officially recognized distance of 280 kilometers. Roughly 680 kilometers across the full month-long adventure.Even having walked that much, I find it difficult to get my head around. That 490-kilometer total includes the walking, exploring, errands, and detours during my Camino days - the total I shared in the last post. The full-month estimate also includes my time in Porto beforehand, the intermission day
The Camino Journals: When the Yellow Arrows End (opens the original)
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Seven and a half kilometers from Santiago, I stopped walking.I could have kept going. That was the strange part. By the time I reached O Milladoiro, it wasn’t yet three in the afternoon. I could have covered the remaining distance, arrived at the cathedral by five, and celebrated that evening. Finn (the second remarkable “Finn” that I’ve met), a younger German pilgrim I had met along the way, encouraged me to do exactly that.A year and a half earlier, I might have confused continuing with courag
The Camino Journals: What Am I Walking Back Into? (opens the original)
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Before dawn in Pontevedra, I stepped onto the third-floor patio and found myself asking a question I had not planned to ask: What am I walking into?On the surface, the answer was obvious. I was walking into the Spiritual Variant, a detour from the Portuguese Central Route that would take me west through Poio, Combarro, and Armenteira, then down along the Ruta da Pedra e da Auga to Vilanova de Arousa, and finally by boat to Padrón. The most physically challenging of any of the segments that I hav
The Camino Journals: When the Paths Converge (opens the original)
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The Camino has a way of turning geography into metaphor without asking permission.On the morning I left Vigo, I was still walking the Portuguese Coastal Way. Ahead, in Redondela, that route would meet the Central Portuguese Way. On a map, the moment looks simple: two lines become one. On the ground, the change was unmistakable. More backpacks appear, scallop shells swinging from them. More yellow arrows mark the walls, curbs and utility poles. Pilgrims who had started in Porto or farther south b
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