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It’s Sunday! Sunday mornings usually find Pete in the pulpit; but because he is in Spain walking the Camino, we’ll give him the morning off, and I will give you a few of the messages that came to me as I walked the Camino with him. The most common phrase you will hear us say,…

Adjusting but not sure exactly why Our journey today took us through Basque wine country in a light rain. We went about 17 miles and need to make a few up to get back on schedule… The Roman Emperor and noted stoic Marcus Aurelius said something to the effect of “just expect your plans and…

Buen Camino! If you have been following Pete’s posts, you may have noticed that on the last two days, he has finished with the sign-off “Buen Camino!” Buen Camino in Spanish literally means the good walk, the good road, or the good way. It is a greeting that pilgrims have been using along this path…

The walk today was from Burguette to Pamplona: 25.62 miles, 2491′ of climbing and 58,035 steps per Camilles phone. I think it was perhaps 2491′ of elevation but way more up and down than that since there were A LOT of other ups and downs on the path. No heart rate alarms today, thankfully. It…

Planes, Trains and Automobile (specifically: car, car, plane, plane, plane, plane, train, train, walk…) Our Camino walk started today (9/18) but to get to the starting line we left Milbank after the funeral Sunday of our dear friend, Max Gonzenbach (a REALLY good man), and drove to our daughter’s home in Worthington, MN. Monday (9/16)…

Plans delayed We have a 91 year old friend who was a 9 year old girl in Germany when WWII broke out. She has seen and lived things we are fortunately unable to even imagine but one of the things she often says is a German expression, “mensch denkt und Gott lenkt” which she translates…

We begin with goodbye. Goodbye may seem a strange place to begin as for the last 450 years people have taken leave from one another with the expression. It is, however, actually a contraction of old English “God-be-with-ye”; a blessing. The English aren’t the first nor only language to do this. The French may part…