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Weariness of the Solo Walker By that time in my Camino, I didn’t think about the difference in the distances I covered on the pilgrimage from the distances when I trained during the summer. To do so, probably would have made it difficult to continue. …
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Somewhere Beyond the Sea I seem to have this recurring neurotic drama when I’m closing a door behind me and there’s no going back. Every morning during my Camino I would go through the same doubts in my mind: Do I have everything? Did I …
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First Tastes of Spain …Once more, I started checking out the restaurants in the harbor area. I stopped at Cervejeria Celtic where about 10 people sat at various tables under an unassuming enclosed canopy. Cervejaria Celtic doesn’t sound very Spanish, but centuries ago the Celts …
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Ramblin’ Fever In May 2017, I was staying in a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, recovering from a hip replacement. The physical therapist told me I was making great progress. I could now take myself for unassisted walks using crutches. As I maneuvered the crutches down …
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Discovering the Camino This book is about my Camino de Santiago pilgrimage at the ripe young age of seventy-one. The Camino is a pilgrimage that traditionally Catholics from all over the world undertake to the purported burial site of St. James at the cathedral in …
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John Comando is retired and living in Mexico. He loves to travel. In autumn, 2018, he walked the Camino de Santiago in Spain. Walk by My Side, a travel memoir, is about that journey and is his first book. He has studied in Spain, adopted …
Read MoreThere’s no way to plan for the unexpected…
When I decided to walk the Camino de Santiago alone at age 71, it was on a whim. A year and a half earlier, I had had a hip replacement, but felt that I had become complacent in a comfortable retirement, and needed to shake up my life. And that’s what I did.
I knew walking a Camino wouldn’t be easy or pain-free. Then, On my third day of walking, an injury on the trail threatened my ability to finish my adventure. It would be more difficult and demanding than I ever imagined, forcing me to reach beyond physical pain and endurance, battle self-doubts, and draw from a spirit within me to finish the walk all the way to Santiago de Compostela. Along the way, I discover unexpected feelings and surprising emotions.
When I was in an early stage of writing, a friend commented “I felt like I was walking with you, walking by your side.” That comment inspired the book’s title and a promise to the reader to maintain that feeling throughout the journey.
Read this travel memoir and you’ll be there with me…walking by my side.
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