[Gocamino] camino blues??

[Marcus Wilder]

I believe you have mis-diagnosed your condition.  Long-distance walking 
is a disease.  The sufferer is terminally infected with one exposure.  
For victims of this disease, the horizon is always there, quietly 
taunting.  Jim Peele, who participates here, is an admitted victim.   I 
am an old man with physical infirmities.  I dream almost constantly of 
walking next year from Oslo to Santiago de Compostela.  If I can find 
the money, I will do it.  On the Via de la Plata, I met several victims 
who do nothing but walk.  Walking became their lives.


On Jul 30, 2007, at 7:36 AM, claire bangasser wrote:

>
> On Jul 29, 2007, at 1:16 PM, Hathor821 at aol.com wrote:
>
>>  A question?  Is there something called "camino blues?"  I  suffered
>> intensively upon my return last year and wonder if it happens
>> often....how to deal
>> with it....how to explain not only Camino to friends and  family
>> but the
>> obsession with it....
>
> Yes, Patricia, I would say there is such a thing as 'camino blues'. I
> definitely had it two years ago when we came back from Le Puy-
> Santiago. My way of softening the edge of the blues was to decide to
> do it again. Which we did last year. This year, we were going to go
> from Lourdes-Somport to Santiago, but realized a week or so ago that
> we could not. Too much to do in our old house.
>
> The camino haunts me. One way of dealing with the longing, for me, is
> to try to bring it into my daily life, the way I had promised myself
> to do it the first time I reached Santiago. I have also a couple of
> books that I want to spend time with. I would like to read a book on
> the History of Spain and the History of the Spanish Civil War
> (remember el monumento a los caidos?). The spirituality of the Camino
> also is haunting me, so I hope to work it in these next months. And
> then of course, I enjoy the conversations here and click on the links
> of photos :-)
>
> claire
>
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