Dear Family and Friends,

There are many ways to walk the Camino. Carry your pack, send it by taxi, maybe find a sweet and sure footed burro to take the load.

We are just two days walk now from Santiago. The number of pilgrims on the way has increased exponentially since Sarria (three days back). Sarria is the last beginning place one can enter the Camino and qualify for the “Compostela”, the document that certifies your walk. We welcome the new folks so fresh of legs and clean clothes, but miss the long miles of solitude we enjoyed before they joined us. On our very first day crossing the Pyrenees with Kate and Mark we saw only one other pilgrim. Now, over a hundred or more walk with us daily.

Galicia is rural and green and wet! On Monday we walked in an absolute gale all day – driving rain and wind. At one point, soaked and cold we climbed up into an abandoned thatched roof structure made to hold hay and got out of the weather, had a snack, changed our socks and gave great thanks for simple shelter. It was perfect.

So here we are just two days out. We should arrive on Sunday in time for the noon Mass. We are already entertaining the idea of walking on to Finesterre (lands end) another 100 KM. After paying homage to our Christian tradition, why not our Pagan Celtic one as well. In Finestere you reach the ocean and the altar to the sun and 0.0 KM mile post. One can simply walk westward no further. We’ll see – our legs are very tired, but we’ve gotten used to it, and a dip in the ocean seems a fitting ending to this grand journey.

Each of you has been remembered in our thoughts and prayers, many times, and you may never know how much your thoughts and prayers and love for us has carried us (better than the sure footed burro)

Muchas Gracias, we love you.
Catherine y Dana