Friends of the Road to Santiago and this listserve

[Liz Allen]

Dear Linda:

Even though I've been more in the background, I wish
to add my thanks to you for hosting this listserv.
Also, I will email my article to you about my
experience walking the Camino earlier this year.
I would like to get more information about training as
a hospitalero, organizations who arrange for persons
who have completed the Camino and wish to serve at an
alburgue for a period of time. A friend who supported
me along the Way is interested in a long term
commitment. I was going to direct him to this listserv
alas - found you were moving onto other things.
Good luck in your new ventures, I too am moving on to
Central America and other journeys of the spirit!
Peace
Sally Allen

--- davidson <davidsonaETAL.URI.EDU> wrote:

> 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
>




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