The gauge on the kitchen wall says Rain, yup no lie! It is coming down outside and we are walking in a few minutes. A different face on Phil’s Camino. It sounds like the wind blowing but the wind is not blowing, that is the rain falling. Yup, the monsoon season has arrived.

The local newspaper the Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber published a front page (below the fold) article with pic about Phil’s Camino the trail and the film. I remember the reporter Julie was out here mixing with the folks that were arriving for the big Port Townsend Film Festival weekend. We were generally smoking and joking (old saying) here walking the trail, drinking wine and having tapas, locals and folks from LA. Julie was in the swing of it all while reporting on it for the article. I’m not sure that is really fair subjecting a poor helpless reporter to that volume and intensity of Camino hospitality. I guess it’s fair for it was just us, right? That’s how we act, we can’t help ourselves! Maybe we need a warning label: “Caution, pilgrims at play, doing what they do, winning over your heart is highly likely.”

You know come to think of it, it really isn’t fair. In general, pilgrims have a complete unfair advantage in most of life. I have never thought of it in those terms before but it’s true. Thank you St James for one.

Well, time to gear up for my walk, let’s see, wetsuit, aqualung. But it will clear up last minute, right? Maybe Bill my cancer commando buddy will show, he is crazy enough. The best to you, don’t take unfair advantage of people, love, Felipe.