Something good and wonderful happened this year. I don’t mind talking about it.
Thank you everyone who helped me on this journey – those I walked with and those who read my musings on the trail to Santiago and beyond.
I am not a writer in real life, but I hope you understand the feelings I sent to you about life as a peregrina or lady pilgrim in Spain. What I wrote about was just a small amount of what I experienced and observed on the trail. The photographic images in the blog posts are just a fraction of those that I captured on my camera phone.
Even though my pilgrimage is over, I will be thinking and surprising myself with many memories for days, weeks, months, and years to come.
Note: I am in Japan now walking the Shikoku 88 temple pilgrimage. If you have questions about my walk there, ask them on this page or in the blog post reply/comments section.
If anything comes to mind that you want to know about my pilgrimage in Spain, Japan, my wood shop, go ahead and ask in the reply/comment section.
You can be nosy with your questions. I might be wrong with my answers.*
We’ll figure it out.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority.
A second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority.
A first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
– A.A. Milne
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Q. When did you walk the camino?
A. I was in Spain from April 13**to June 27 in 2023. My walk began on April 15. I arrived in Santiago on June 19.
**My flight left my hometown on the 12th and arrived in Madrid on the 13th.
Q. How long were you in Spain walking the camino?
A. I was there for 77 days. A few of the days were for resting along the way and decompressing in Madrid before my return home.
Q. Did you go to Finesterre?
A. Yes. After spending 2 days in Santiago, I took a bus to Finesterre. I spent 2 days there, then returned to Santiago for 2 more days. After that, I took a train to Madrid and stayed for 4 days before flying back home.
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Baadaye
Shirley J ♥️
Read the rest of the stories about my pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, Spain: here.
The stories about my current pilgrimage on Shikoku island in Japan are here.
*The Conversation, “Being humble about what you know is just one part of being a good thinker”, by Eranda Jayawickreme, October 25, 2023
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