Walking and Thinking (conclusion)

Well, we've been finished walking for almost two weeks now, and it's time to wrap this sucker up.  The Camino was a fantastic experience, that much is obvious.  I mean, how much more can you really say about getting up at six a.m. every morning and walking about thirty kilometers.

This tends to change the way you think about a lot of things; the baggage you carry, the difficulty of everyday life, the importance of all the superfluous things that ordinary life brings.  I won't preach or elaborate on these things, but they are very important lessons to have learned, and I'm sure that they will come through in the things we do during the next six months.

From here, we go to Africa, India, Nepal and South East Asia.  There, we will see some of the most challenging and beautiful thigs, and they will be a test to the tests we've overcome on the Camino.  Will we feel diferently about being a tourist in the poorest of the poor countries, where food crises threaten to take away even the most basic elements of life?  Will we stop and help, or get back on the tour bus and go on.  Heavy questions indeed, but the world is a heavy place, and the heavier your backpack is, the harder it is to get through it.

D.