Is this serious...? Is it free entertainment...? Both...?
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This page is about a pilgrimage
It's about me trying to forfill a dream i have had for years. It's not my "main dream" if i have to be specific, but one that hase been in the back of my mind a long time. Sometimes, normally when things were a bit difficult, it would come more to the front. Now the time has come for it to stop being a dream and make it a reality. Not because things are difficult, on the contrary, just because the time is right...
It's about working out how to fulfill the "main dream". A journey starts with a single step.
It's about working out how to fulfill the "main dream". A journey starts with a single step.
What is this "The Way of St.James"?
For those who don't know about it, click here.
It's my goal to stabilize my fragile and easily confused mind by walking a substantial part of this historic pilgrimage.
If you made it to this page, you probably now me (or Zen) personally. You will probably also be aware of the decisions we recently took regarding the changes we are trying to make in our life.
A strange thing happened a little while ago where the route came up in my head again. Later on, the same day, a friend all of a sudden started to talk about it. How he had walked it and how it was "the biggest present you can give yourself". Everything just fell in place and that same evening i decided to finally go ahead this year and walk the camino!
Although i hope i have the necessary finances to, with a bit of careful planing,allow me to go, i am still working on a way to do this without braking the bank. (and even if i didn't, i'm still going!)
More jokingly than anything else, i was thinking about some form of sponsoring. Teasing a friend who resently walked a sponsored walk for charity, asking,since she asked me to sponsor her, if she would sponsor me. I was told she woudn't. Reasons: her case was to fund research for a serious illness. Also, she paid her own registration fee.
Zen came straight to the point and helped my case by saying that here was this friend's opportunity to directly help the "health" of somebody she knows personalty and calls a friend....
Perfect argument... Zen is my hero! I decided to try this sponsorship thing...
A strange thing happened a little while ago where the route came up in my head again. Later on, the same day, a friend all of a sudden started to talk about it. How he had walked it and how it was "the biggest present you can give yourself". Everything just fell in place and that same evening i decided to finally go ahead this year and walk the camino!
Although i hope i have the necessary finances to, with a bit of careful planing,allow me to go, i am still working on a way to do this without braking the bank. (and even if i didn't, i'm still going!)
More jokingly than anything else, i was thinking about some form of sponsoring. Teasing a friend who resently walked a sponsored walk for charity, asking,since she asked me to sponsor her, if she would sponsor me. I was told she woudn't. Reasons: her case was to fund research for a serious illness. Also, she paid her own registration fee.
Zen came straight to the point and helped my case by saying that here was this friend's opportunity to directly help the "health" of somebody she knows personalty and calls a friend....
Perfect argument... Zen is my hero! I decided to try this sponsorship thing...
In order to clarify my need for this appeal, i need to give a bit more info about El Camino de Santiago:
(Wiki cut and paste...)
Galicia's regional government promotes the Way as a tourist activity. Following the Xunta's considerable investment and hugely successful advertising campaign the number of pilgrims completing the route has been steadily rising.
The compostela is a certificate of accomplishment given to pilgrims on completing the Way. To earn the compostela one needs to walk a minimum of 100 km. In practice, for walkers, that means starting in the small city of Sarria, for it has good transportation connections via bus and rail to other places in Spain...
The compostela is a certificate of accomplishment given to pilgrims on completing the Way. To earn the compostela one needs to walk a minimum of 100 km. In practice, for walkers, that means starting in the small city of Sarria, for it has good transportation connections via bus and rail to other places in Spain...
Stating my dilemma..
I really am going to walk the walk.
I really want to do it for my own mental state, by lack of a better term...
I want to walk this specific route because it has been walked for at least a thousand years by people trying to work out the same things over and over again...
I want to walk it to the end, but the last 100km is overrun by tourists....
In order to get out of this what i am looking for,i feel i need to start a significant distance before Sarria, the last 100km...
I really want to do it for my own mental state, by lack of a better term...
I want to walk this specific route because it has been walked for at least a thousand years by people trying to work out the same things over and over again...
I want to walk it to the end, but the last 100km is overrun by tourists....
In order to get out of this what i am looking for,i feel i need to start a significant distance before Sarria, the last 100km...