At this time (2pm Thursday, May 14th, 2015) I will be on my first flight toward my journey on the El Camino de Santiago de Compostela!
Keep me in your thoughts, prayers, and follow me!
Next post will be from St Jean Pied de Port, France!
Till soon,
Showing posts with label Preparation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Preparation. Show all posts
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Thursday, April 30, 2015
14 days to go!
Wow!
Wow!
The seed to walk the El Camino de Santiago de Compostela was planted 5 long years ago whilst having a "need to travel" with my brother Robert!
Wow! Freaking myself out knowing that the time has finally come.
I have walked the Camino in my mind hundreds of times.
I have a John Brierley guidebook of The Way of St. James - A Practical & Mystical Manual for the Modern Day Pilgrim also referred to as a Guide to the Camino de Santiago.
Anyway, I have devoured this guide, page by page, map by map, as well as watching YouTube videos of others' journey on the Camino Frances.
I have read books:
I have watched The Way with Martin Sheen - a father's experience walking the Camino, it only increased my desire to walk.
I am ready, so ready!
A little bit of statistics so far this year of the amount of pilgrims or pereginos or pèlerins that have made the journey so far:
January 2015 - 1, 217 (compared to 906 in 2014)
Wow!
The seed to walk the El Camino de Santiago de Compostela was planted 5 long years ago whilst having a "need to travel" with my brother Robert!
Wow! Freaking myself out knowing that the time has finally come.
I have walked the Camino in my mind hundreds of times.
I have a John Brierley guidebook of The Way of St. James - A Practical & Mystical Manual for the Modern Day Pilgrim also referred to as a Guide to the Camino de Santiago.
Anyway, I have devoured this guide, page by page, map by map, as well as watching YouTube videos of others' journey on the Camino Frances.
I have read books:
I have watched The Way with Martin Sheen - a father's experience walking the Camino, it only increased my desire to walk.
I am ready, so ready!
A little bit of statistics so far this year of the amount of pilgrims or pereginos or pèlerins that have made the journey so far:
January 2015 - 1, 217 (compared to 906 in 2014)
- 64.34% men
- 35.66% women of which 4.44% were 60 and over.
February 2015 - 1, 544 (compared to 970 in 2014)
- 61.59% men
- 38.41% women of which 4.73% were 60 and over.
March 2015 - 5, 080 (compared to 3,150 in 2014)
- 55.75% men
- 44.25% women of which 8.19% were 60 and over.
April stats not yet up, I will update when it is available. So, so far this year, 7, 841 brave souls!
Quite a steady increase from 2014 and, looks like women prefer warmer weather - smarte!
Buen Camino!
(Camino: way, path, journey, road)
Saturday, April 25, 2015
Video...testing...
Today I walked a route I use often.
I decided to take my GoPro along.
I filmed for 58 minutes.
This blog only allow 100mb or 1:35 clip.
I was not planning on putting a 58 minute video, however, I would have liked to have maybe a 5 minute clip.
I uploaded 1 clip at the required time and once I clicked "publish" and reviewed "live" it was horrible.
So, here I will add a link for my walk down an access point to Kempenfelt Bay and see if it works better. It is not as clear as the original, I will have to work on that - take some Tutorials or something.
Click on Kempenfelt Bay, and let's see,
Till soon!
PS: I checked it, it is not so bad! Let me know what you think!
I decided to take my GoPro along.
I filmed for 58 minutes.
This blog only allow 100mb or 1:35 clip.
I was not planning on putting a 58 minute video, however, I would have liked to have maybe a 5 minute clip.
I uploaded 1 clip at the required time and once I clicked "publish" and reviewed "live" it was horrible.
So, here I will add a link for my walk down an access point to Kempenfelt Bay and see if it works better. It is not as clear as the original, I will have to work on that - take some Tutorials or something.
Click on Kempenfelt Bay, and let's see,
Till soon!
PS: I checked it, it is not so bad! Let me know what you think!
Monday, November 24, 2014
Quick update!
Last post was August 27th...
I have not posted for a couple of reasons:
It is to be a blog about my preparation, regardless how small, toward my Camino! And so, since the last post, there has been very little to no preparation [by preparation I mean walking, hiking, etc]. On beautiful days I chose to ride instead of walk and by mid September, I broke my big toe :(
It was recommended that I did not walk much for at least 6-8 weeks - I reluctantly complied. November 14th was my first attempt at getting back on track [sort of] by walking 10km or two hours and during a little snow squall. I repeated the walk a couple of times including this past Sunday and I believe that I am now completely mended as there was no pain to the said toe.
The video above - walking in falling snow! Here I chose to video the falling snow in SlowMow - if you can, listen carefully and it seems like the snow flakes are talking...pretty cool. Wonder what they are trying to tell me haha
Till soon!
I have not posted for a couple of reasons:
It is to be a blog about my preparation, regardless how small, toward my Camino! And so, since the last post, there has been very little to no preparation [by preparation I mean walking, hiking, etc]. On beautiful days I chose to ride instead of walk and by mid September, I broke my big toe :(
It was recommended that I did not walk much for at least 6-8 weeks - I reluctantly complied. November 14th was my first attempt at getting back on track [sort of] by walking 10km or two hours and during a little snow squall. I repeated the walk a couple of times including this past Sunday and I believe that I am now completely mended as there was no pain to the said toe.
The video above - walking in falling snow! Here I chose to video the falling snow in SlowMow - if you can, listen carefully and it seems like the snow flakes are talking...pretty cool. Wonder what they are trying to tell me haha
Till soon!
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