[Gocamino] Camino by Walker II

[Glenn]

One of the marvelous things about being in touch with the Camino are 
inspirational stories such as this one.  But there is another aspect that is 
very interesting to the point of being perhaps supernatural.  I have seen a 
man with cerebral palsy walking (really staggering) down the road, and I 
heard through the Camino grapevine that he made it.  In 2005 I met a man 
named Julian, who had a stroke and had one side of his body barely 
functional, we had to help him on with his pack.  He made it also.  And 
there were others, as I am sure we all have seen who beat the odds and 
arrived in Santiago for their Compostela.  Yet I also met very fit people, 
some of them young people, who didn't make it or couldn't make it because 
their bodies gave out on them.  It is hard to explain if you discount the 
spiritual aspects of walking the Camino.

Glenn

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Subject: [Gocamino] Camino by Walker II

>
> I typed this out quickly and failed to proof read it before sending ... 
> She walked an average of thirty kilometers per day for fifty days. The 
> corrected numeration is incorporated below.
>
> Camino by Walker
>
> Una mujer de 77 años peregrina desde Francia con su andador
>
> Tiene 77 años de edad, se llama Mimouna El Mazougui, y llegó ayer a 
> Compostela después de realizar el Camino de Santiago desde la localidad 
> francesa de Saint Jean Pied de Port. Lo curioso es que recorrió la Ruta 
> Jacobea con la ayuda de su andador, puesto que sufre una dolencia en las 
> piernas que le impide caminar con normalidad.
>
> A pesar de todo, Mimouna asegura que no le ha resultado difícil hacer el 
> Camino, del que habla como una experiencia maravillosa. "Salí hace 
> cincuenta días de Francia y cada jornada recorrí unos treinta kilómetros. 
> Había jornadas en los que tenía que andar más de lo normal, porque con el 
> andador no me podía meter por el trazado original de la Ruta y tenía que 
> ir por la carretera".
>
> At 77 years of age, she’s called Mimouna El Mazougui, arrived yesterday in 
> Compostela after completing the Camino de Santiago from the French town of 
> Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port. The unique thing is that she did the Jacobean 
> Route with the aid of her walker, since she suffers an ailment in her legs 
> which prevents her from walking normally.
>
> In spite of it all, Mimouna assures us it was not a difficult experience 
> to do the Camino, but speaks of it as a marvelous experience. “I left 
> fifty days ago from France and every day I made about thirty kilometers. 
> There were days when I had to walk more than the usual distance, because 
> the walker didn’t let me walk the original route and I had to go on the 
> highway.”
>
> Source: 
> http://www.elcorreogallego.es/index.php?option=com_content&idMenu=3&idNoticia=353505
>
> Buen Camino,
>
> Grant
>
> Grant Spangler
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