With my new novel Lost in the Fog soon-to-be published, in September of 2019 I embarked on a four month trip to France, Spain, Portugal, and the Caribbean. The main reason for the journey was to hike the Camino de Santiago, a 550 mile pilgrimage. With this blog, I am excerpting from the journal I kept. As David Lynch once said "getting lost is beautiful".
October 31, 2019 Today’s Walk (The Final One on the Camino): Cee to Fisterra Our hike across Spain will soon be history. While it’s 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) to the official End of the World at Cape Fisterra, the place J’Nell and I are staying tonight is 12 km away. We leave our albergue in…
October 24th (Thursday) – 6 pmA Concha Café, LavacollaToday’s Walk: Salceda to Lavacolla Like the walk into Sarria, J’Nell and I get rained on from the moment we step out the door this morning until we reach our hostel in Lavacolla. But thankfully it is mostly light precipitation and not much wind until the end,…
October 22nd (Tuesday) – 10:31 pmHotel-Restaurante Xaneiro, MelideToday’s Walk: Os Valos to Melide J’Nell and I wake to sunrise outside the large picture window in our room. The orange and gray sky turns yellow with fog drifting through the valley, and the trees in the meadow are silhouetted in the dawn light. From our excellent…
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