Thursday
13Aug2009

Monte del Goza to Santiago - part 7

There wasn't so much time for journal writing on June 12, 2006, and when I read the entry for that day I see how much my mind was trying to make sense of things regarding the future and not the events at hand. As a result, I omitted something rather important

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Monday
03Aug2009

Monte del Goza to Santiago - part 6

After a few more visits to restaurants that were pronounced not good enough and the sense that we were beginning to walk in circles, there was a meltdown of sorts by Claudette who stopped the group and let out her frustrations verbally. I listened carefully and caught key phrases: "this is

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Thursday
30Jul2009

Monte del Goza to Santiago - part 5

Marc and I walked around the city, looking into window after window of Camino trinkets and memorabilia of all kinds and sorts. I didn't want a gold shell or cross around my neck or a way marking tile to build into my home, nor a T-shirt, nor a statue, nor any of the thousands of

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Wednesday
29Jul2009

Monte del Goza to Santiago - part 4

I am willing to concede it was probably the best paella we had the entire journey. I am also willing to concede that I would have rather have had a hamburger with french fries. Xavier was certainly happy about the paella, so maybe that was some indication of its

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Tuesday
21Jul2009

Monte del Goza to Santiago - part 3

When we found the nearby office it was locked up as usual. It was ridiculously early after all. We put our backpacks down in the short line that had already begun to form at the door. Amazingly enough, we hadn't been the only

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