Category: Travel

  • Camino Day 3: Questioning

    Here I am with Day 3!  These consistent blog posts brought to you by a week long receptionist temp job. So yesterday I mentioned that I would include an angry message I sent the third morning of the Camino.  But when I went to search for it on Facebook today, the whole thread had disappeared. …

  • Camino Day 2: Better than the Pyrenees

    We were awoken the next morning by what I thought were church bells, but when the choir came in, I was a bit more skeptical.  The nuns of the hostel in Roncesvalles used a tape recording of choral music to get you out of bed; a trustworthy tactic to jolt the  200 hikers out of…

  • Camino Writing: Take 1

    Three years ago today, Claire and I took off from St. Jean Pied du Port on our hike to Santiago.  Every year since, I have made an announcement that I would finally track my trip day by day; at least make an attempt to document the experience.  And every time my goal has been too…