Camino de Santiago Days 16/17/18/19/20/21/22/23/24/25/26/27/28/29 Calzadilla de Los Hermanillos to Santiago de Compostella - 227.35 miles
Day 16 - Calzadilla de Los Hermanillos to Leon 26.7 miles
Day 17 - Leon to Villarreal de Mazarife 13.75 miles
Day 18 - Mazarife to Astorga 19.4 miles
Day 19 - Astorga to Foncebadon 16.9 miles
Day 20 - Foncebadon to Ponferrada 17.5 miles
Day 21 - Ponferrada to Villafranca del Bierzo 14.5 miles
Day 22 - Villafranca to La Faba 15.5 miles
Day 23 - La Faba to Triacastela 16.4 miles
Day 24 - Triacastela to Barbadelo 17.75 miles
Day 25 - Barbadelo to Hospital de la Cruz 18.4 miles
Day 26 - Hospital to Milide 17.4 miles
Day 27 - Milide to Salceda 15.75 miles
Day 28 - Salceda to Monte Gozo 14.5 miles
Day 29 - Monte Gozo to Santiago de Compostella 2.9 miles
Total from St Jean Pied de Port - 493.4 miles walked
I arrived at the Cathedral of Saint James in Santiago de Compostella at 6:12 AM yesterday morning, July 23. I walked the final 3 miles into the city completely alone as I had planned. I just wanted the time alone to reflect on the journey. It has been an amazing experience. I have met many wonderful people and seen many amazing things. I am truly blessed to have been able to participate in this incredible journey. It is difficult to describe the feeling of reaching a destination after walking almost 500 miles over 29 days and 3 mountain ranges. Not to mention the 20 lbs pack. I'm just not gifted enough to put it into words. I hope the photographs I have taken will be able to do it justice. I am proud of the images I have taken and look forward to sharing them. A gallery exhibition of the images is scheduled for the USM campus during the spring semester.
I wish I could have written and shared more about the journey and my experience along the way but the days were long and exhausting. I hope you all enjoyed following what little progress I was able to post. It was encouraging to know that you were following along. Thank you.
It has been a fun year. I guess the only question now is "What's next?" I read this story before I left to come to Spain about a man who kayaked from Europe to Miami. That sounds fun.
Thursday, July 24, 2014
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Camino de Santiago days 11-15
Camino de Santiago -Day 11/12/13/14/15 - Burgos, Spain to Hermanillos - 87.15 miles
Day 11 - Burgos to Hontanas 19.7 miles
Day 12 - Hontanas to Boadilla 17.75 miles
Day 13 - Boadilla to Carrión de los Condes 16.4 miles
Day 14 - Carrión to Terradillos de Templarios 16.6 miles
Day 15 - Terradillos to Calzadilla de los Hermanillos 16.7 miles
Total from St Jean Pied de Port - 266.05 miles walked
I have made it past the halfway point.
What can I say about the last five days? The meseta definitely lives up to its reputation. I still have 2 more days before I am out of the meseta, although I'm contemplation making a big push tomorrow and getting it over with. I continue to meet very interesting people with a variety of motivations for doing this pilgrimage. One of note is a graphic design professor from Singapore. She is running the entire distance, averaging about a half marathon a day. Some days more, some less. She is collecting all her data and plans to create a visual representation of her camino with the data. We talked for a long time. We are both obviously interested in the same type of things with endurance sports and visual communication. She definitely got my wheels turning as to what I can do with all the data I have collected through triathlons and training.
Day 11 - Burgos to Hontanas 19.7 miles
Day 12 - Hontanas to Boadilla 17.75 miles
Day 13 - Boadilla to Carrión de los Condes 16.4 miles
Day 14 - Carrión to Terradillos de Templarios 16.6 miles
Day 15 - Terradillos to Calzadilla de los Hermanillos 16.7 miles
Total from St Jean Pied de Port - 266.05 miles walked
I have made it past the halfway point.
What can I say about the last five days? The meseta definitely lives up to its reputation. I still have 2 more days before I am out of the meseta, although I'm contemplation making a big push tomorrow and getting it over with. I continue to meet very interesting people with a variety of motivations for doing this pilgrimage. One of note is a graphic design professor from Singapore. She is running the entire distance, averaging about a half marathon a day. Some days more, some less. She is collecting all her data and plans to create a visual representation of her camino with the data. We talked for a long time. We are both obviously interested in the same type of things with endurance sports and visual communication. She definitely got my wheels turning as to what I can do with all the data I have collected through triathlons and training.
Friday, July 4, 2014
Camino days 6-10
Camino de Santiago -Day 6/7/8/9/10 - Viana, Spain to Burgos, Spain- 83.5 miles
Day 6 - Viana to Naverette 14.2 miles
Day 7 - Navarette to Cirueña 20.4 miles
Day 8 - Cirueña to Belorado 17.9 miles
Day 9 - Belorado to Atapuerca 18.9 miles
Day 10 - Atapuerca to Burgos 12.1 miles
It's been a great few days. I'm really settling into the walk and starting to get into a good routine. Impressions of Spain remain the same although I must add that the cathedral in Burgos is breathtaking. Very beautiful. I am no longer walking with John because he has a much stricter deadline than me and I have work to do. I'm still keeping a good pace though. It has rained the last 2 days but only enough to get me wet and not enough to dampen the spirits. I seem to be walking faster than most which is great because it affords me the opportunity to meet new people every day. Tomorrow I come to the meseta. From what I hear it is very flat and just fields after fields of the same scenery. Should be a great time to spend in thought and reflection.
Day 6 - Viana to Naverette 14.2 miles
Day 7 - Navarette to Cirueña 20.4 miles
Day 8 - Cirueña to Belorado 17.9 miles
Day 9 - Belorado to Atapuerca 18.9 miles
Day 10 - Atapuerca to Burgos 12.1 miles
It's been a great few days. I'm really settling into the walk and starting to get into a good routine. Impressions of Spain remain the same although I must add that the cathedral in Burgos is breathtaking. Very beautiful. I am no longer walking with John because he has a much stricter deadline than me and I have work to do. I'm still keeping a good pace though. It has rained the last 2 days but only enough to get me wet and not enough to dampen the spirits. I seem to be walking faster than most which is great because it affords me the opportunity to meet new people every day. Tomorrow I come to the meseta. From what I hear it is very flat and just fields after fields of the same scenery. Should be a great time to spend in thought and reflection.
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