The most common questions we ask each other on The Way are:
- Where are you from?
- Why are you walking el Camino?
- How did you get time off in order to walk?
Answers to this last question have been very interesting. Committing to el Camino means anywhere from 4 to 10 weeks away from home, work, and family. Some are between jobs. Or just graduated. Some worked 365 days last year in order to get 6 weeks off this year. Others are retired. Or made special arrangements to cover their jobs and other responsibilities.
But more often than not pilgrims recognize that they simply had to make the Camino a priority.
Because we can come up with excuses all day long not to live our dreams. (No matter how legitimate they are.) Or we can choose to live them.
And everyone here has made the choice to live.
For me that means carrying my laptop across Spain, taking short walking days so I can complete my work assignments in hotels and cafes.
And it has been worth every step. Every extra kilo in my pack.
Whatever it takes in order to live.
That is the choice I want to make.
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| Working in the albergue in Granon. |
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