OK, here it is the third of the month and the big game has been decided and onward we go into the glories of Spring. That’s what I’m fantasizing about. One thing that is evident now is the change in the length of the day since the solstice, unmistakable. So, everything else should follow according to my calculations.

Well, I started a new book which our dear Catherine placed in my hands recently. A book by the way that about eight hundred people said it’s a must read. And I am on a record breaking streak right now with four books finished since Christmas. That is a lot of reading for me. But anyway, A Pilgrimage to Eternity by Timothy Egan is the one. He writes for the New York Times and is a Seattle resident I think.

Wow, another book and a half! It is a journal of his thoughts as he walks the medieval route from Canterbury England to Rome along the Via Francigena. Sigeric the Serious, Archbishop of Canterbury hiked this both ways in 990. His detailed records are now being used to revive and reconstruct the trail for us moderns. And Eagan’s book is a sort of spiritual travelogue of a lapsed Catholic on the early on stages of this reconstruction.

I know from reading and actual pilgrims on this route that the Italian end of the route is way more organized with accommodations and signage as will be needed. Lucia from Sicily who I walked with in Spain has done various parts of it with various groups in Italy since. And as I understand it the improvements are starting at the end and slowly working their way northward toward the beginning.

Oh, have to go walk myself, Phil’s Camino you know.

what fun loves, Felipé.