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)
The good, the bad, and …
The good? It jumps right out at you: three friends who said "yes" to a 10.5-mile stroll in the woods. That's more than "good." That's "great"! As if that weren't enough, consider this: it's mid-October (perfect time of year!), it is not rainy...
Clean clothes blues
For weeks our washing machine had been giving hints that all was not well. Call it denial or wishful thinking or playing dumb, but I’ve perfected the art of ignoring hints until forced to do otherwise. They say “don’t fix what isn’t broken,”...
Warding off the rain
So, yep, that’s me! Covered in fuchsia. Ready for the elements! Hoping that if I have rain gear at my disposal while on the Camino, it will turn out to be totally unnecessary. You know, like carrying an umbrella to keep the rain at bay....
And how about that portable keyboard and the WordPress app?
Or I might have titled this post: EXPERIMENTING. Yep, I'm checking out what it might be like to blog from Spain using the Wordpress app on my phone connected via Bluetooth to the portable keyboard. Well, there's one paragraph. Easy enough. If Kevin asks when he comes...
To blog or not to blog…
Yes! That is the question. I want to somehow keep track of this journey I am embarking on, if only for my own sake, if only to prod my leaky memory in years to come. And I want to share some of my experiences with those who might be interested. Some will care only...
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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