Category: travel
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Footsteps To Freedom
May 22, 2026 “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” -J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring Every walk I take I thank God for the freedom I have. I experience immense…
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Filtered Light, Bird Song, Hopping Bunnies and Magnificent Tree Bark!
May 21, 2027 I most definitely love an awe inspiring vista and thoroughly enjoy the physicality of powering through a challenging climb. I for sure enjoy experiencing new trails and destinations. I don’t mind motoring for hours to reach a trek’s starting point. That being said, I’m here to tell you that this Walking Fool…
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Mostly I Just Like To Walk May 20, 2026
There is so much I LOVE about walking!! From the simple fact that ambulation is a gift not to be taken lightly or for granted – to the grand expansion and exposure experienced on the journey: physically, visually, audibly, spiritually, mentally, intellectually, metaphysically and often relationally! Certainly there is a practicality to walking and…
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A Few Days In Valencia
April 23-27, 2025 I have now been home in the USA for exactly a week. I have been dragging my feet in writing and posting this summation of my last few days in Spain – a hesitancy due perhaps from not wanting this adventure to end… For now, here’s the metaphorical period at the end…
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Long Day At The Airport
Tuesday, April 22 – Off to Valencia – It seems auspicious that I should be in such a Catholic center of reverence when Pope Francis left this earthly world on Easter weekend, 2025. Rest In Peace, compassionate and inclusive follower of Jesus Christ – not only in words – especially in your exemplary walk of…
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Camino Commonality
Sunday, April 20, Milladoiro to Santiago de Compostela, 6.2 miles, 1.5 hours – and later walking to total 10.26 miles on the day Monday, April 21 – Out and About, 8.6 miles Uplifting textures of my life’s weaving and this particular pilgrimage instigated my ultimate roving today. I set out, not wanting to nor having…
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That’s a Wrap
Sunday, April 20, Milladoiro to Santiago de Compostela, 6.2 miles, 1.5 hours I’m a day late with this post, experiencing a myriad of competing emotions, many of them contradictory. And even an apathy in not wanting to be accountable to anyone including myself to do ANYTHING! I retired early Saturday evening because it was so darn miserable…
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Ponchos Blowing In The Wind And Rain
Saturday, April 19, 2025 Padrón to Milladoiro, 14.5 miles, 4 hours Though there were (very brief) periods of brightness and blue sky and a few interruptions in the rain, I only took a few pictures because my phone was in a baggie to keep it dry all day. We passed through pockets of woodland…
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Good Friday in Spain in The Rain
Friday, April 18, 2025 Caldas de Reis to Padrón, 14 miles, 4.5 hours. I awoke to the lovely sound of rain against my window and soon the roosters were crowing, too. The big question – WHEN to start walking! My projection was a four and a half hour day with check in at 3:00 to…
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Mama Said There Would Be Days Like This
Wednesday, April 16, Hotel Marea, Across Pontevedra, 5.8 miles, 5.5 hours Today’s mileage was slim compared to other days, but it was probably my toughest day walking for whatever reason. My backpack seemed to list to the left all the time, I walked many steep, neighborhood hills, and I kept feeling like I was getting…