Monthly Archives: November 2024
Coming Down is Harder
After climbing up a whole mountain I was hoping for a certain cliche to appear before me. Actually, I was praying for that cliche, longing for it! Which is dangerous, as cliches are the core of bad writing and sloppy … Continue reading
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Tagged addiction, adventure, camino-de-santiago, hiking, john-poole, johnny-cash, jonathan-frakes, mountains, nature, old-crow-medicine-show, travel
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The Biggest Albergue in the World! meh.
Stacy and I came out of the Pyrenees, wind blown and exhausted. So exhausted that the walls of the Roncevalles Orreaga albergue which loomed over us like a 1960’s Hammer Vampire film didn’t impress us. They should have, and on … Continue reading
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Tagged bad-food, Camino, camino-de-santiago, hiking, John Poole, john-lennon, john-poole, matthew-broderick, Orreaga, pilgrimage, roncevalles, spain, travel, working class hero
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buddha meets jesus 