Dear Caminoheads,

We all have arrived to the Oasis! And when I say “we all”, it really is the case. What a marvelous thing!

It has been a long walk. Along these past couple months, some of us have been painting and placing yellow arrows hoping we could arrive to the Oasis safely (and when arrived, there would be water!!!) General Volker has sadly had the hardest part: giving the instructions to his vassals and trusting we would do our best without his consistent hands-on oversight. We had some enemies in the middle of the walk that we hadn’t expected: the blog went down, COVID-19 delta variant surge everywhere, and some other bed-bugs that are not worth of words. But we made it. Blistered, tired and injured, but here we are.

Remember the happiness of the arrival to Santiago? That is how we have felt since yesterday. That pure joy of having arrived.

Now, there are no more yellow arrows showing the path forward. What we do and the path to take moving forward is up to each of us. There is the hope that we have learnt something along the way and this is our first rehearsal to put them in practice. We have talked extensively in this blog what the Camino has taught us and “what we have figured out”, this is the time and the place to show them all.

Like in The Way, we haven’t chosen a life, we live this one. We have to make sure we make the most of it. Embody kindness and goodness. Be safe and make sure the others are safe (we are still in a pandemic). Sprinkle around Camino Dust. Have fun.

From the busyness of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, I will be with you in spirit.

We have arrived Loves,

Cris