Follow My Journey
The Camino de Santiago is a 500-mile pilgrimage route across Spain. Follow along as I blog about my journey – both as I prepare (until April 2019) and walk (April – May, 2019)
…And Ginny makes three!
It is official! My little cousin Ginny is joining our ranks! I've seen her flight information and count on her arriving at JFK on April 2 in plenty of time to join me and Barb as we cue up to board our Iberia flight for Madrid. How cool is that? "Just out of the...
Coming out of the woodwork
(Caveat: This post was designed as a labor of love and gratitude, in a spirit of "let's try [this or that]," by yours truly, a very inexperienced designer! For what it's worth, the post "views" much better on a computer where, I promise, when there's a reference to a...
The final trimester
I've had a bit of fun lately thinking of myself as a pilgrim-to-be and of my preparations for the pilgrimage as a sort of pregnancy. Up until recently, I had an approximate "due date" ("D-date" or "do it date" or, if you must, "departure...
The deed is done! Gulp!
Yes! We did it! Selected "next" and "continue," agreed that we had indeed--which of course we hadn't!--read all the fine print, and provided our credit card numbers and... we've booked our flights to and from Madrid. Yikes! Ok, so it wasn't as easy as I just made...
7 x 7 = another goal met
And on the 7th day she rested. Well... not exactly. Everything is relative. Today is the 7th day of January, but unless you call washing and folding three loads of laundry, chopping and roasting three kinds of veggies, cleaning up the kitchen...
Katy Ratcliff
That’s me in the photo. (You probably guessed that.) Midwesterner through and through. I was born and raised in…. Well, if you care about all that, check out my (in)complete bio here. For now, know that I am spending many hours on wooded trails of several counties adjacent to my home in Bloomington, Indiana as I prepare to head off, on foot, on a 500-mile, centuries-old pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in NW Spain come spring of 2019. “Come with me” as I reflect on my training and then on my experiences as a peregrina (pilgrim).
@katys.camino
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