I wrote this on 2 Jan 14
I am not sure what has drawn me so convincingly to want to do this very stupid thing. I am not religious as such but have a deep seeded sense for Christian values, and although it is a pilgrimage of epic proportions it is not for religious reasons but more a spiritual evolution that I feel I am planning to embark on the journey…..
I have read books from other pilgrims, have the ‘Camino de Frances’ daily track next to bed and regularly look at it. I have thought about what I will carry, when I will start and the first days’ end town. From there I don’t have a clue what happens.
Others will join me on the way at currently undetermined points but will walk the last 100 km’s and then we will spend a week in France at a friend’s house.
When I try to articulate my narrative on ‘Why?’, I now structure it in this way……
I can see my life in 3 stages – growing up, becoming educated, learning how to serve people (1st career) and finding the love of my life, then raising my beautiful family and consolidating my 2nd career and now find myself staring at the future, I want to get away to spend some time reflecting and then seeing if the next stage comes as an epiphany while I am walking 800 km’s across the top of Spain in September 2015.