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because we are having difficulty posting photos, I am trying something different as an experiment. I hope to add a second page to the Welcome page. I hope you will be able to access the page rather than a post. Good luck. if this works, I will continue adding pages to the welcome page with…

It was very good that we had had a good night’s sleep in Trabadelo because day seven was a really challenging and tiring day. We left our very nice hotel at 6:30 and began a relatively short 8 1/2  mile walk. However, the difficulty and challenge of the very steep ascent to our destination belied…

The walk from Cacabelos to Trabadelo took 15 hours for brother Ronald and me and about 16 hours for Sean. The difference was that shortly after leaving Cacabelos, the Camino trail split into two possibilities: brother Ronald and I took the most commonly used, but Sean decided to take the more difficult but more scenic…

Because of poor internet and other issues, I have fallen behind in posting these updates of our pilgrimage. Therefore, I am posting day four and day five. Day 4 We left Foncebadon at 6:15 am to continue our ascent to Cruz de Ferro, Iron Cross, the highest point on the entire Camino. Thankfully, we had…

We left our lovely lodging in Santa Catalina at 6:45 AM after a good night’s sleep and a nice breakfast that had been prepared the night before by our host since we were leaving before the regular time for breakfast. We enjoyed fresh fruit, chorizo, cheese, and sourdough bread. The weather was excellent again: quite…

It was good that day two was intended to be a gradual introduction to walking the Camino because the three of us had not had a great night’s sleep. Brother Ronald and Sean were able to get a few hours of sleep in the small dormitory with about six other men in it, but I,…

The first day of our pilgrimage turned out to be even better than we had expected. Sean met Brother Ronald and Brother Paul at the airport in Madrid and accompanied us to the train station. Realizing we were there far ahead of our scheduled departure, we took a taxi to the neighborhood where Sean has…