Deep Thoughts from the Camino

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September 15, 2025

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What does one do and think about all day long while walking up and down hills and mountains for hours and days on end with only yourself, your spouse, and the occasional fellow pilgrim as company? I’ve heard that many people take this time as a meditative experience to connect with God or themselves and come out on the other side a better person. I can’t say I did any more or less of that than usual. There was some time spent thinking and talking with Trevis about the state of the world, good and evil, social media, politics, war and peace, finances, etc.

Here is a random sampling of the actual things thought and said:

  • Flex your gluts! Flex your gluts!
  • How many miles is 26 kilometers, and if I’ve walked 8 kilometers by 10:30, about when will we finish for today?
  • I have to pee!
  • Can I have a drink of water?
  • All the kids in the marketplace say Ay-oh, Ay-oh, Ay-oh, Ay-oh!
  • Play me a song you’re the piano man, play me a song tonight. We’re all in the mood for a melody and you’ve got us feeling all right.
  • Tell me why, ain’t nothing but a heartache, tell me why ain’t nothing but a mistake, tell me why I never wanna hear you say, I want it that way.
  • How much longer before we finish for today?
  • I’m glad we’re not booking all these hotels ourselves!
  • How are we going to pack all this stuff when we pick up our other bag at the post office?
  • I wonder if we’ll ever see those British guys again?
  • What is the ideal camera kit for this style of travel?
  • Am I getting a blister?
  • Is it time for chocolate yet?
  • Going uphill is the worst!
  • Going downhill is the worst!
  • How is that girl running down this trail? I would land on my face!
  • Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree, how lovely are your branches!
  • The first Noel, the angels did say, was for certain poor shepherds…. something, something, something lay…
  • Jingle jingle jingle can you hear the sleigh bells ring?
  • Mooo! (to the cows)
  • Poo! (while pointing out a cow pie)
  • What’s going to happen to our bodies after we finish this and aren’t walking all day every day?
  • Why on earth did they book us to stay at x instead of y?
  • Oh, my knees!
  • Flex your gluts!
  • No one can stop me, I’m all the way up!
  • Will we be off of this highway soon?
  • Are we there yet?

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