Camino too easy?

[Robert E. Spenger]

No, I wouldn't use the term "easy" for it, but to call it difficult is a gross exaggeration. On my
first trip I was 75 years of age, my French and Spanish were useless for conversation. My only
travel experience had been in Latin America. My attitude was rotten - almost every day I had strong
thoughts of just chucking the whole thing and going back - even on the day I entered Santiago,
after over two months on the road from Arles. There were times when it was frustrating and
exasperating, but I never found it to be difficult, certainly not as hard as I had been lead to
believe from the messages that I had read.

regards,

Bob Spenger

Richard Ferguson wrote:

> I was surprised at how difficult the Camino was.  I have climbed glacier covered peaks to
> 21,000 feet, and done many other hard and scary things.  I think that it will be harder than you
> expect, especially if you do the trip alone.  I thought that with my international travel
> experience, my good Spanish, my backpacking and climbing experience, it would be
> somewhat easy, but it was not.
>
> Your experience on the Camino will necessarily vary, depending on your background, your
> experience, your language skills, your spiritual view, your companions if any, the weather, the
> incidents or misadventures you have, how many km you walk per day, the physical ailments
> you develop on the walk, etc.  But I do not think that you will find it "easy".
>
> Richard