Our Schedule

Our plan is to fly to Frankfort, Germany on 11 May to visit with Seth and family. We will all go on holiday near Alicante on the Mediterranean coast of Spain on or about the 25th of May.

On 31 May, Patsy and I will take the train from Alicante through Madrid on to Pamplona. We should be able to get a bus to Roncevalle and a taxi on to St. Jean de Pied du Port. If all goes well, we will start walking on 1 June 2010. If not, then we will spend the night where we end up and make our way to St. Jean the next day.

Our end date is not firm. We might be able to do the trip by the end of June, but probably only if we take a bus occasionally. If we bus, it will be in the center of the country. The walk is 450 miles and we are not sure if we can keep up 15 miles a day for a month. If we hold up well, we might just stay and finish in the first week of July.

We fly out of Frankfort on 13 July. When we are not walking, we plan to spoil the grandchildren. (Seth and his family live in Bechofen, Germany where Kathy is working at the hospital in Landstuhl.)

Patsy training for the Camino

Here is Patsy starting her training for the Camino. Actually, she has been training on her new bicycle for some weeks now and going to the gym for months. Now we are doing more serious specific training. This trail is a half mile from our house and has about a one mile loop. We like it.

You can see that Patsy is using trekking sticks. She says she can hardly walk without them now and she has only been using them about two weeks. They do make walking easier and their use seems to be very natural with little learning required.

We are also bicycling more just to improve our endurance. I am still doing the cycling classes at the Y and lifting weights, but I am hiking places, sometimes with my pack.

Camino de Santiago site with lots of good photos.

This is my first blog, so please be patient. I am still experimenting.

Here is a link to a good Camino site.

Here is another Camino de Santiago site.