Well, yesterday I talked about something tiny and today I thought that I would get to something really big but we will see. Lots of happenings and details to tell you about.

Rick returned and we had dinner with him and his wife Carolyn at our friends lovely home here on the Rock (a nickname that we have for this island that we live on). Rick had three hours sleep in the last fourth eight. But he was full of stories of his adventures since I saw him last. After Santiago he had walked to the ocean to see that area which he thought was great except for the rain. So, welcome back Rick!

Lucia from Sicily has been emailing regularly with insights and general bits of information. She will be off to Scotland soon. We will have to send her warm thoughts all winter.

Angela checked in with a massive diary of her days on the trail. She suffereds so much pain with tendinitis but managed to remain ever cheerful. Amazing. I last saw her right before Burgos as she was at the “we were louder than the Italians” party. I have to comment that she contributed heartily to that effort. It was going to be her birthday in a few days and we were planning some sort of celebration, not that we needed an excuse at that point. But I feel bad that didn’t happen for us but I am absolutely sure that she partied with her angels that evening wherever she was. I need to get some pix up of her here if and when I can figure that out.

And I have been running pix of Matthew lately I have never sufficiently talked about the fact that he was walking for his brother Jon who had died of cancer recently. I could tell that he really loved his brother and I volunteered to take his place for the time being. We had much great conversation over three or four days. Thank you Matthew. Please comment and give me some contact info.

Yesterday, my wife Rebecca and I FaceTimed with Anamaria and it was awesome. This opens up all sorts of possibilities for keeping together, working on language or just general dilly dally, our favorite.

Thank you Laura and Mary Margret for comments on yesterday’s post about small miracles. Just a little aside, I have three deer standing outside my window right now, Mom with two fawns.
Anyway, you can always post comments and they will appear with the blog post of that day. And then if I comment on your comment it will appear there also but I am never quite sure if by that time you can find those or if they sort of get lost in history. Oh well.

I want to get my walking schedule figured out for the “backyard Camino” here. I had some serious regular walkers before Spain and I need to connect with them. Thinking that should be something like 0900 to 1000 maybe three or four days a week. Give me a few more days on this.

OK,well, we successfully dilly dallied around enough to not have time to work on the “big” topic. Or maybe this is the “big” topic, hard to say at this point. SJA, love you, Phil.