Things are moving along nicely with The Two Caminos. The manuscript is currently under copy edit and some time in the next few weeks I will get feedback. That will leave me a month or so to get any changes done and start the publishing cycle. I still have some trepidation about that whole process, but this is what it is all about, so onward we go.Mary Lou and I leave San Diego on the 10 May for a brief stop in Toronto, before heading to London to see Jenny and Jeff on the 16 May. We will make our way to St Jean Pied de Port before starting our second Camino on the 25th. If the stars align we will visit Bruno, a friend from our first Camino, at his home in his Basqueland. Coincidentally, he is leaving on his third Camino on the 20th.
Our journey this time will be quite different. We will take seven weeks instead of five, walk every kilometer, and intend on continuing to Finestere after Santiago de Compostella. Jeff and Jenny will meet us in Santiago on the 4 July to walk the last 115 km with us. How great is that to have your son and daughter in law share the experience. We will stay in some of the same towns, but most of our stopovers will be in lesser known communities. Neither of us expects the same spiritual experience, nor that we will assemble a Camino family, as we will be the slow boats on the trail, and "No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river, and he is not the same man." This trip will be all about history, and seeing those things we missed the first time around. The research for The Two Camnos has given me a new appreciation of this walk, and the importance of it's past in just who we are.
