Step 1. Decide to do it. Not a tough decision. I have spent almost every two years of my life visiting my moms home town of Granon in Spain. This town happens to be one third of the way to Santiago de Compostela via El Camino. It also has one of the highest rated albergues of el camino. So seeing and hearing about the experience has always been fascinating. So now it will be my turn to tell the stories and get the sore feet.
Step 2. Commit to doing it, deciding to do it is not enough. There is work and life and it is 30 days of walking if all goes well. So planning worse case 5 to 6 weeks of walking plus two weeks to get there and two weeks to recover so looking at 10 weeks. Other considerations could the family do part of it and walking or biking. Really biking was never much of a choice for me, although my knee would be much happier I don't see getting as much out of it doing it that way. In my own way I love to socialize, my favorite part is hearing other people's stories about family or personal experiences. So now back to the 10 weeks. I created a formal leave request for work which has been approved.
So decision complete, will walk it starting around june 11th, Quinn and Joe will join me for the first 10 days and i will do it at my leisure, no rushing. Anyone interested in joining let me know, but be warned my plan is to take a few day breaks at strategic times.
First goal is get to Granon before San Juan the 24th of June. So off to look at options for the first part.
