[Gocamino] [saintjames] Re: July 25th, 2009

[Rebekah Scott]

I´m hoping to go. But I´m taking the Camino Invierno!

Rebekah Scott 
www.moratinoslife.blogspot.com

"It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood."
-- Karl Popper


--- On Tue, 8/4/09, Johnnie Walker <johnniewalker-santiago at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Johnnie Walker <johnniewalker-santiago at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Gocamino] [saintjames] Re:  July 25th, 2009
> To: "Grant Spangler " <GASpangler at hotmail.com>
> Cc: "gocamino at oakapple.net " <gocamino at oakapple.net>, "saintjames at yahoogroups.com " <saintjames at yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 7:35 AM
> Interesting. The Pilgrims' Office is
> preparing to receive an estimated 250,000 pilgrims next
> year. The argument is that this last Holy Year until 2021
> will bring more pilgrims - how many on foot is yet to be
> seen
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grant Spangler <GASpangler at hotmail.com>
> 
> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 04:27:32 
> Cc: <gocamino at oakapple.net>;
> <saintjames at yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: RE: [Gocamino] [saintjames] Re:  July 25th,
> 2009
> 
> 
> >From the non-Holy Year 1992 to the Holy Year 1993 there
> was a 10 fold increase in peregrination.
>  
>  From the non-Holy Year 1998 to the Holy Year 1999 there
> was a 5 fold increase in peregrination.
>  
>  From the non-Holy Year 2003 to the Holy Year 2004 there
> was a 2.4 fold increase in peregrination.
>  
>  See any trend yet? We may be approaching saturation.
>  
>  See: http://www.elcaminosantiago.com/PDF/Distribution_Of_Pilgrims.pdf
> <http://www.elcaminosantiago.com/PDF/Distribution_Of_Pilgrims.pdf>
> 
>  
>  See also: http://www.elcaminosantiago.com/PDF/Distribution_Of_Pilgrims_By_Country.pdf
> <http://www.elcaminosantiago.com/PDF/Distribution_Of_Pilgrims_By_Country.pdf>
> 
>  
>  I estimate there will be 200,000 to 400,000 Compostelas
> issued in 2010.
>  
>  Would I go on a Holy Year? Youbetcha. I went in 2004, a
> bumper crop year, and always got a place to lay my head.
>  
>  It's an adventure. Not everything is supposed to be known.
> Embrace the mystery. There's so precious little left to
> chance these days.
>  
>  
>  Buen Camino
>   
>  Grant
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