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Chapter 1: Leaving the Camino Bubble

August 16, 2017

**Read Until Your Bored Please!** (then tell me why) There I was sitting on the couch on the third floor of Albergue Seminario Menor, the largest of Camino de Santiago Albergues. It was my second day resting after my grueling 8-day walk. From here, I had to continue onwards towards my destination, Lithuania. I had two feet, still blistering and painfully walkable and no freaking idea how I was going to travel, now that I wasn’t duty-bound to walk the Camino anymore. To give you some perspective of what it felt like walking with my bags, each step felt like tightly hugging a…

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Narrative

Pilgrim’s Toil – A Day on the Camino de Santiago

May 11, 2017 2 Comments

I promised myself I wouldn’t have to walk this far again and here I was, walking some unknown distance with feet far beyond blistered and a backpack well over 30 pounds. At least, I thought, I don’t know how far I have to go. At least it’s cloudy and rainy today too. Two days prior I hiked over 24 miles in the sizzling May heat from the northern border city of Valensa to the Spanish city of Redondela. To say that day was brutal was an understatement, but I did it in telling myself that I wouldn’t have to repeat…

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Travel

Test Dummy Guide to Planning your Backpacking Escape

April 18, 2017 2 Comments

Have you pondered leaving all the dregs of life to go chase your pink dragons in foreign paradises. Lying I would be, if I said I wasn’t. If you’re like I was, working a full time job with hopes of escape in the future then you’re in good hands! I’ll hold your hand through the practice of planning your backpacking escape. I’m far from the first person to do this yet I’m shocked by all the people that say “I wish I could do that”. Hey you! You can do this, here’s how… Planning for Planlessness It’s taken years of planning for the future…

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