22 days to departure! 😀

It’s been a rather surreal seven months since that fateful day back in August. Things happen in life sometimes that you just can’t make up. Unless you write novels. Ha.

Such as…  A few days before Christmas I receive a photo, via text, of Cindy in a cast! What the …?! I call her immediately. Apparently she’d gone roller-skating with her granddaughters for their birthday. Taking things slow for a bit, as she hasn’t been on a skating rink in quite a few years, it’s going well; so she gets more confident and decides to do some turns. Ah, not the best idea she finds out as she takes a tumble… backwards… on her wrist. It swells up, and hurts like crazy, so she decides she’d better get an x-ray. Broken! And a week later, surgery. Luckily, she’s now healed up and working on getting her strength back.

My recovery had a small setback as I had more surgery on my elbow in February to remove a protruding screw, attached plate, an errant bone fragment and another loose screw. Will be doing PT until I leave. But I’ve made good progress.

The surgeries and healing process have given me an appreciation for anyone who’s ever been injured and having to regain movement and strength in any part of their body. And I think I’m supposed to be learning patience…? Yeah, still working on that!

Anyway – now we’ve both “been there, done that”… no more broken stuff!!

Once we acclimate for a couple days in Logroño, we’ll taxi to Viana and start the rest of the walk from there. And go on to Finisterre – “the end of the earth”.  It’ll be spring this time and we look forward to the sights and smells of that season as well as meeting new people. We’re also hoping to meet up with one of the pilgrims we met last fall. Onno will be walking another section of the Camino and the plan is to meet him where he left off last year.

I think of the Camino every single day and have a hard time focusing on anything else.

We are so excited and so ready!

The desire was stronger than all the fears I had.