[pct-l] 'OT' - Squatch wants to go on another adventure!

[Ron Graybill]

My wife and I did the Camino de Santiago last year, a great walk, but just
a minor tune-up for the PCT.  On the Camino you have water fountains in
virtually every little village, plus plenty of steams and rivers, pilgrim
hostels to sleep in every night for something like $10, and inexpensive
pilgrim meals in scores of bars and little restaurants along the way. Of
course, sleeping in a big room with 20 bunk beds means you've got to find a
way to cope with snoring fellow pilgrims. We even had one nut that
announced he had leprosy and was on his way to Santiago to get cured. (He
wanted to show me his sores, but I declined the offer and excoriated him
severely for expecting God to cure him when God had already provided a cure
to every doctor in the world.)

On the Camino, those of us who carried our packs ( a measly 18-20 lbs) the
whole 500 miles got to look down on the "commercial pilgrims" who paid a
van to transport their packs to the next stopping point.  (not that there's
not a similar pecking order among PCT hikers.).

There is, of course, a Camino email forum, that functions much like the PCT
Forum, and tons of Camino de Santiago websites, as well as an episode of
Rick Steve's *Europe *that features it, and Charlie Sheen's movie, *The Way*,
critically acclaimed, but a box-office failure--no car chases, sex,
explosions, or murders.


On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 4:40 PM, <enyapjr at comcast.net> wrote:

> Squatch, of the PCT "Walk" series and AT "Flip Flop Flippin'" duo fame,
> has now set his adventuresome sights
> (& wanderlust) on what is perhaps the most highly used trail in the world
> - the Camino de Santiago in Spain (over
> a quarter of a million peregrinos/pilgrims on the Camino in 2010, a holy
> year)...
>
> Check it out, and perhaps help out, at <
> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/squatch/squatch-attempts-the-camino
> >...
> Join in on the adventure!  Should be 'interesting' from a Squatch
> perspective(!)...
>
> Buen Camino / Happy trails!!!
> Jim (PITA)
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Ronald D. Graybill
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