Dear Caminoheads,
Apologies for the sudden disappearance and lack of news this past week. I guess Phil had some sort of secret that did not share with me about how he did to write every single day no matter what was going on… Last week, my days were full, my hands were full and my mindheartsoul were full too.
The week involved driving on my own almost 1400 km in 2 days, daily twice a day visits to someone who didn’t recognize me, a lot of sweets and pastries eating, shared dinners with people I love every day, the re-encounter with one of my friends from childhood, and regular 9 hours working days. I must say that on and all, it was a good balance of hardship and support.
I came back on Saturday night, after driving for almost 9 hours, and on Monday, I started with some sort of symptoms that suggested a cold, but yesterday fever was added and I could hardly sleep not because of the fever but because of the panic of having spread the virus to others. Today I got a swab prescribed and fortunately, it was negative for covid. Probably this is a cold caused by the air conditioner in the car, the fact of having been isolating for too long avoiding any contact with the most inoffensive microbe and exhaustion.
This trip was a very meaningful one. In a way, another Camino moment, a trip that has a before and an after. And a trip that has left me with a lot to unpack. But right now, the coughing and sneezing are taking the priority for attention, so I am going to sleep and will come back here in the next days. All I wanted is to let you know that the Caminoheads blog is still alive and kicking, but the writer has been too full.
Balanced loves,
Cris
1400km is far in 2 days by land, impressive!But then Argentina is a long country.I have just been rereading Sara Wheeler’s Travels in a Thin Country about her trip down the length of your neighbouring country of Chile all the way from the Peruvian border to Puerto Williams using a mixture of;foot,taxis, buses,trains,car,trucks and ferries and for the last bit the Chilean Air Force took here across to Antarctica by plane!Due to COVID-19 restrictions I’ve only covered about 12000km so far in 2021 and I haven’t been far in two years and the last new country,my 94th!, Jordan was in 2019.Which was about the time I was diagnosed with the rare blood cancer.Ah elusive Antarctica the 7th continent I’d love to go but I’ve only ever met about 5 people who have set foot on it’s shores.
Dear Kevan,
Thank you for your compliments! I am not fond of driving by myself in the road, after a while it turns boring and there are risks of falling asleep, but as you said, the length of the country (and the fact that all the planes take off from Buenos Aires, regardless) makes common to drive for many hours. In 2004 when my ex-husband and I went for a training in Sao Paulo, we drove from Buenos Aires to Sao Paulo, almost 2400 km… but we were young back then!!! LOL!
Antartica is kind of a place… I also would like to visit… a friend of mind who is in the Marine and is a meteorologist, used to spend the summers in the Antartica over and over again (now he has children and doesn’t do that anymore).
Hopefully COVID will be under control after the next winter… and hopefully we will be able to travel again… I miss the expectation of being about to take a flight that would take me to a new adventure! 🙂
Many hugs!
Cris