Friends of the Road to Santiago and this listserve

[Sasha Vanderhyde]

Dear Linda

thanks for all you have done, I have really enjoyed being part of this
group, it really helped to plan my trip to spain back in june and has helped
me keep that experience as part of my everyday life ever since. I will miss
it.

As for retiring I think you are wise in noticing when the time is right for
change and not fighting against it, to say goodbye to something you have
worked on and been close to will allways be hard but to be able to look
forward to new things you need to let go of some of the old things, take
care and good luck

Sasha
----- Original Message -----
From: "davidson" <davidsonaETAL.URI.EDU>
To: <GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU>
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 4:21 PM
Subject: Friends of the Road to Santiago and this listserve


> Dear "Gocamino-ers"
> Several changes will be happening over the next few months related to
> "Friends" and to its web site and this listserve. We will keep you
informed,
> via the Newsletter which should be in your mailboxes within the month.
>
> As you all know, this listserve went "down" inexplicably for two months
> over the summer of 2004. Many people switched to "santiagobis" as
> another way of keeping up and informed on the pilgrimage, so especially
> important during this last  holy year for 11 years.
>
> My inability to solve the problem because of long distance communication
> (you may remember that I was in Europe & Morocco) made it obvious that
> when there is an emergency I am not always able to handle it.
>
> I have looked at my long term calendar of planned activities and it is
> apparent that David Gitlitz (my husband and co-author, among many other
> things) will be out of the country more than we will be in it for the next
> several years (decades, perhaps).  We are working on a variety of topics
> broader than just the Santiago pilgrimage, and our research activities
> have increased over the last couple of years. This fact, combined with our
> plans to retire in a few years, means that it is time to look for another
> conduit for the needs of American (North, Central, and South) proto-
> Santiago pilgrims.
>
> And viola' : the new registered charitable group called American Pilgrims
> has been busily organizing to do all of the things that "Friends" has been
> doing and much more. Kathy Gower, Lin Galea, Zita Macy, George
> Greenia and others have already had success in making their
> organization a charitable one, in planning and raising money for the
> computer for the Archicofradia, in working on the 2004 and future
> "Gatherings" for pilgrimage seminars. I heartily applaud their efforts and
> am proud to announce that "Friends of the Road to Santiago" is merging
> into their organization.
>
> The first step, especially important to you, is our closing of this
Listserve.
>
> It's been a super interesting discussion group, not without volatility,
and
> always with a support of pilgrims and their plans. I am happy to have been
> able to offer it to the world for communication.
>
> This listserve will no longer run after 15 October (our web page says 1
> October, so that there should be no new subscribers). I invite you to stay
> on the listserve until then, sharing ideas and news (Rosina Lila always
> has the uptodate news for us) and let the listserve's demise be your way
> of unsubscribing (that will avoid all of those pesky "unsubscribe" emails
> getting incorrectly onto this forum).
>
> I am putting together the Newsletter and once again invite you to share
> your ideas about the pilgrimage.
>
> Please send all communication to me to my other email:
> dgitlitzaaol.com.
>
> Thanks again for sharing so many ideas and helpful hints during the last
> few years of Gocamino.
>
> Linda Davidson