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

[Kristin Hamann]

Buen camino!!


On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Ron Graybill <rgraybill44 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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