Last evening Quick, his wife Carolyn and I went into the big city to see “Walking the Camino, Six Ways to Santiago”.  Lydia B. Smith is the wonderful person who is the filmmaker and driving force behind this amazing work.   Thank you Lydia for your many year effort.  I wonder what the “B” stands, for blistered, beautiful, bountiful, beneficial, best documentary ever, yea, that’s it.

We had to fight our way through downed power lines and tree limbs to get there and back, almost like last Feburary 7th when we saw the film the first time and it was the middle of a snow storm.   Anything for Lydia I guess.  Another thing that was the same was the fact that I wept all the way through the darn thing twice now.  It so captures the pain/ joy/wonder/ camaraderie/ blessing/ work / play aspects of the trail.  Absolutely, a must see!

And! And we we walked out with our own DVD’s of it.  Ha!  The much awaited day.   We so want to share it with friends.  Almost better than Christmas.

Lydia did a great job of introducing the film last night and then after took some questions.   The crowd seemed to enjoy hearing about what the six walkers were up to five years later.  They seemed all to have pitched in to help with some aspect of promotions or translating for their home audience.  The film has been subtitled in ten languages.

Then at some point in this she said, “Is Phil here?”  And I groaned and stood and thanked her and gave a short talk on the “Phil’s Camino” project.  What a deal, the limelight.  So, it is all moving ahead in strange and mysterious ways.

OK, second cup of strong coffee.  So, Gracie has the flu and is feeling all alone in her room in London.  What can you do about that?  I told her that she was definitely not alone.  Please send her what you have.

 

 

Obviously I am in love with you all, Felipe.  XOXOXOXO