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EWR to LIS to BOD
Been struggling a whole bunch with my Camino writing. With the year anniversary of the trip, I’m going to try and touch on each day just for memory’s sake. Some may be long,lofty posts, others just a picture with a sentence about blisters. But here we go. Lisbon to Bordeaux July 4, 2017 Before our…
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A Story About a Bee and a Hug
On the second-to-last day of our hike to Santiago, Christina and I weren’t exactly on the top of our game. While Christina’s physical health was wavering, my mental stability and patience with the trip fell more and more each minute. I was growing weary of the whole ordeal, which is not where you want to…
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5 Elements of the Camino Our Country Could Really Use Right Now
On many hiking days, hiding in the safety of the Camino de Santiago often offset the incessant pain of walking 15-18 miles a day, though it was hard not to feel guilty about turning a blind eye to the news back home. With spotty wifi connections and a goal to, you know, focus on the…
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An Afternoon of (Almost) Writing, or How to Make Pumpkin Chili
At the start of this post, I have one completed article, three new article pitches, and a slow cooker full of pumpkin chili. What I do not have, my dear friends, is a single additional word of either my book outline or actual book that I set the past four hours aside to work on.…
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How to Return
The past two nights, I’ve stumbled through NYC pretending that I fit in, ignoring–or hiding–that I still feel like an outsider. I stop extra long at busy intersections–at one point so long that a feisty West Village pedestrian smacks into the back of me without a word of “Oops” or apology. I’m in the way. But…
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The Permission to Scream
Last night, I had a dream about screaming at the top of my lungs. In a normal situation, this would have been a nightmare. But since I am only two weeks out from Camino #2, nothing is quite normal. My knees don’t really straighten yet, my calluses are still hideous, and more importantly, I’m having…
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Post-Camino Zombie Phase
I have officially entered post-Camino-zombie phase. After Camino number one in 2009, I had one full day at home with my family before boarding a southbound airplane and launching into a “getting to know you”-new-job situation. So as strange as I feel now, I am grateful for the silence of my living room, the promise…
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So I was on a podcast…
Amidst the absolute madness of the past several weeks, I received an early light at the end of the tunnel in the form of an email from Dan Mullins. Dan hosts a podcast based in Australia that interviews pilgrims from the Camino, and he found my xoJane article from last year on the experience. I’ll…
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Two Months Before the Camino
I’ve always had travel anxiety. I dream about going on trips, and save up for years for these types of things, just to feel horribly anxious before I actually leave. And the moment I decided on a date to return to the Camino de Santiago, I knew that this happy/terrified anticipation would begin even earlier than…
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