Welcome!
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Update, November 2024.
Time passes, and recently in a rare moment we realized that our Camino website was surely well out of date. Indeed, it fell by the wayside during the Covid 19 years and this welcome page failed to include even our most recent 2022 "Camino for the Ages." Moreover, during that most recent trek we discovered that much had changed since we first embarked on the Camino in 2008. To our eyes, it appeared that the ranks of peregrinos appeared to include many more young people (and by extension fewer older people) than it did 14 years earlier or in the intervening years. The infrastructure was better developed in 2022 than in earlier years even though services were then still recovering from the disruption caused by Covid 19. It appeared that many more people were using transport services and fewer attempting to carry three weeks worth of belongings on their backs as we had done so faithfully. Finally, some hikers carried apps on their cellphones that provided valuable advice on following the trail. All these observations combined to convince us that our website was no longer particularly useful. Surely it is no longer state of the art. We will leave it up for a while for whatever historical or archival services it may provide, but caution any who stumble upon it that better information is almost certainly available from many readily available sources. |
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Welcome to our Camino website. We hope you will find here some useful information and engaging stories.
The Camino is a thousand-mile long, thousand-year-old route that historically carried pilgrims on foot from all over Europe to the shrine of St. James in northwestern Spain. A more complete description is found HERE.
We first heard of the Camino in 2007 and never imagined ourselves walking it. But we did walk it, in 2008. To our surprise, the Camino called to us . . . again and again . . . 9 times between 2008 and 2019. In June 2022, we took our 10th Camino walk. See our blog for day-by-day narratives and photos.
Welcome to our Camino website. We hope you will find here some useful information and engaging stories.
The Camino is a thousand-mile long, thousand-year-old route that historically carried pilgrims on foot from all over Europe to the shrine of St. James in northwestern Spain. A more complete description is found HERE.
We first heard of the Camino in 2007 and never imagined ourselves walking it. But we did walk it, in 2008. To our surprise, the Camino called to us . . . again and again . . . 9 times between 2008 and 2019. In June 2022, we took our 10th Camino walk. See our blog for day-by-day narratives and photos.
We have been retired since 2006. Russ had a career in public sector, biology-centered science and Peg's career was in university public relations. Read more about who we are HERE.
Because we enjoy sharing the Camino experience and meeting others who are considering walking it, we have taught short courses on Camino practicalities through the Community Education program at a local college . We gathered the information provided here on the website for those classes. You can also find here blogs about our various walks.
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In February 2020, we gave our most recent Camino presentation, in Gainesville, FL at the Senior Recreation Center as part of the Prime Time series. We titled it "Walking the Camino: Dream Adventure or Impossible Dream!"
As it turned out, this was only weeks before the pandemic caused us to begin "stay-at-home." We had a preview of the pandemic's arrival at the talk. Two attendees told how they were scheduled to participate in a guided tour to China, including the then not-well-known-to-Americans city of Wuhan. Their trip had just been cancelled because of an outbreak of an unusual virus in Wuhan.
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The All of Our Caminos section includes the walks ordered from beginning to end, rather than from end to beginning as a regular blog does. If you are interested in a particular section of the Camino, this may be an easy way to find our posts about walking that section. Additionally, we include in All of Our Caminos our blog entries from our time as hospitaleros in El Burgo Ranero.
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A Camino for the Ages - 2023
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A Camino for the Ages tells the engaging story of our real-life experiences adapting to the Camino near the end of of the decade of our seventies. The book is available Amazon as an e-book, Kindle version. To learn more about our Camino experiences and to see Reader Comments on our novel Second Wind on the Way of Saint James, click on Second Wind. |
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With questions or comments, or to engage in discussion, send us an e-mail at [email protected]. We look forward to talking with you.