[Gocamino] Of bags and books

[Wendy MORRIS]

Hey Grant..a big thankyou for the info on Machi and Bob. What a couple
of amazing chaps and great photographers too.

>From the very nearly Springtime in beautiful South Western Australia.
Buen Camino to all (in everyday life!)
Wendy 

-----Original Message-----
From: gocamino-bounces at oakapple.net
[mailto:gocamino-bounces at oakapple.net] On Behalf Of Grant Spangler
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 10:05 PM
To: GoCamino at oakapple.net; RobtWard99 at yahoo.ca; machi at telsur.cl
Subject: [Gocamino] Of bags and books

I'd like to say hello to two unique people in our virtual albergue,
Machi 
and Bob.

Machi harkens from the far southern reaches of the Americas: Patagonia.
What 
many of you might not know is that Machi is our barefoot pilgrim. I walk

barefoot much of the time here in California and am a proponent of
sandals 
on the Camino, but Machi walked the Camino Frances barefoot. Now there's
one 
way of avoiding blisters! I go barefoot in uncompacted beach sand to
toughen 
my feet for peregrination. Machi just does it barefoot. My hat's off to
the 
great bootless one. Read (in English) and observe the unshod Pilgrim in 
action: http://www.barefooters.org/gallery/pilgrimage/index.html .

Bob Ward is from the opposite side of the Americas, Canada. I had the 
pleasure of walking into Santiago with Bob in 2004. His recent book is
just 
the latest installment of several he has penned. It has not quite
arrived in 
Amazon.COM, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000S0WB9U , but does exist
on 
Amazon.CA  http://www.amazon.ca/dp/0887622526 , go figure. All Yanks
need to 
head north to the Canadian Amazon to get their Camino fix. In the mean
time, 
look at his Website and meet Bob, our notepad wielding observer of the 
Pilgrim Condition http://www.robertward.ca . Well done, Bob. See you
next 
round.

Buen Camino,

Grant

Grant Spangler
GASpangler at hotmail.com
http://groups.msn.com/ElCaminoSantiago
http://community.webshots.com/user/ElCaminoSantiago




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