Farewell - leaving Santiago
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These past few days on the Camino has been absolutely amazing, full of laughter and tears. When I first started this Camino, I thought that I was gonna meet some new friends on the way and have some good fun, but I never expected to get a new family on the Camino, our own new family.
I love traveling and I've seen some amazing places in my life but there is nothing in the world that would beat this, it's absolutely amazing. The feeling you get when you walk into Santiago together with about 20 new friends, it's indescribable. Everyone has there own thing to add to the group, "just one more thing guys"
I thought that this trip was gonna be an emotional trip, mostly because of the walking itself which can be very meditative and it's also a challenge to walk across the country, come on its 789kms, it's quite a walk I gotta say. Well it was, but the most difficult part is to see your friends leaving after all this time and you just don't know when you will see them again. Yesterday and today has been a roller coaster of tears, hugs and lots of laughter. Today we even got to see some new people, too get some more good byes, like all our beloved Paco:) one of the angels on the Camino.
When I started walking from St Jean Pied de Port I saw some people walking back, all the way from Santiago. I didn't really get it at first, why do you want to go back? but the closer I got to Santiago I started to understand. It's easier to just keep on walking than to stop. It's all final as soon as you stop walking and to stop follow yellow arrows and shell shaped signs. What do we do now? What is a life without the Camino, no albergues? No yellow arrows? No painted pilgrims signs crossing the road? No more shells? No more pilgrims dinners? No more bocadillas? Huevos fritos in the morning? So what do we do now? Well we regroup, we get the tattoo, I already got the t-shirt and then we do it all over again next year. Hopefully I will get to see you all in Lisbon/Porto in May next year and we can keep this Camino alive.
Lots of love and thanks to you all for walking and drinking with me <3
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