For most of the journey, Babar and I have had different cadences and walking styles. However, just before Navarrenx, we started walking alongside each other. I...
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Making distance: Nogaro to Aire-sur-l’Adour to Arzacq-Arraziguet to Arthez-de-Bearn to Navarrenx
After a rough afternoon and evening Wednesday spent recovering from whatever had gotten me sick, I woke up a little on the late side Thursday, but...
Continue reading...Two rough days: Condom to Éauze to Nogaro
Tuesday’s early morning departure from Condom started off well enough. The weather was pleasant, and the trail out of the city followed the river for a...
Continue reading...Climate change: Auvillar to Lectoure to Condom
Last Sunday was the last day of a prolonged, unseasonable heat wave in this part of France. The mercury may not have called it the hottest...
Continue reading...Walking to the other half of the world
At some level, I suppose I realized I would eventually cross from the Eastern Hemisphere to the Western Hemisphere at some point during my pilgrimage. Still,...
Continue reading...Cast of characters
I’ve been on the trail for 19 days. Not surprisingly, I’ve seen a lot of the same faces of other pilgrims over and over again. Sometimes...
Continue reading...Catching up with the maps: Livinhac-le-Haut to Auvillar
Since I’m now over a week behind on posting map data, I’m putting all of it through yesterday in this one post. The photos and the...
Continue reading...Resuming the walk: Conques to Livinhac-le-Haut
After a re-energizing break in Conques, the trail called again Friday morning. And it offered a challenge right away. Most of the villages to this point...
Continue reading...Livin’ on a prayer
It’s gotten quite warm here the past few days, which is part of the reason I’m still behind on my daily blog updates. The last two...
Continue reading...Lost and found: Sénergues to Conques
Thursday was the shortest day I’d done on the Camino so far. I left Sénergues only knowing that I wanted to get to Conques in time...
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