Heavy rains were predicted this morning, so last evening we made the decision to sleep late. We had planned to leave our lodging around 9am. Our discussion at breakfast led us to make plans to return home. Yes, we are stopping this pilgrimage early. This one has always been different insofar as we never had …
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Jakobsweg Day63 Salgesch-Conthey 17.39mi
We woke up at 6am in the dark (we all remembered the 5am sunrises 63 days ago in Prague). We packed under the light of our phones and dragged our stuff under a light near to the bathhouse at the campground. There, we basically repacked because things weren’t in the right place, and we also …
Day62 Kendersteg to Salgesch. 13.4 miles
Nadine It's complicated. There were many unknowns in the plan for today including both our lodging and even our destination. We have done three consecutive days of significant climbs and I had had about enough. Mark’s knee was also stiff from a minor strain and little sleep last night. So we decided to skip today’s …
Jakobsweg Day58 Grindelwald-Grindelwald 0km
No update today because other than eat and plan lodging we just rested. The pilgrimage starts again tomorrow. Grindelwald
Day 34 From Spielberg to Oettingen In Bayern 15.2mi -411.2mi total.
Allison, Nadine, Mark We slept in! Well, Nadine didn’t, she got up to see the sunrise, but unfortunately it was an overcast morning. Breakfast was served at 8 am and what a breakfast. The meal covered all the basics and the entire surface area of the huge table. Granted we also made sandwiches for lunch …
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Jakobsweg Day8 Hracholusky-Kladruby 15.8mi -First Rain
Before we even left our room this morning the sunrise over the lake was beautiful. I have to take Nadine's word on that because I am not a morning person. Obviously, this is Allison. And our lodging very kindly provided black tea which apparently has lots of caffeine. Apparently when a morning person has two …
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It’s packing Day
Well, it has finally arrived. It's packing day. One of the great things about a pilgrimage hike is that you don't have much stuff, and EVERYTHING you need to bring is in your backpack. But how on earth do we get three months of supplies to fit? Well....here's how - watch to the end for …
Paper Chains – Nadine
I’ve been reflecting on the upcoming adventure as we enter our countdown. Tomorrow we will read Psalm 19 and it seems just yesterday when we started our tradition of counting down beginning with the reading of Psalm 150. (Didn’t everyone growing up use paper chains as a countdown to something important like Christmas or the …
40days and 40nights
Yesterday we were 40days and 40nights until our departure. In Jewish tradition, 40days symbolizes is a period of testing, trial, or probation God caused it to rain for 40 days and nights during the flood (Genesis 7:12). Moses went up to Mount Sinai for 40 days on two different occasions (Exodus 24:18, 34:1-28). Moses sent …
Two months – Oh my.
Two months before our trip....yikes! I remember this feeling before every adventure. The months before always seem to drag on and on. But at this point you start realizing that there is so much yet to be done and the weeks are fading fast. We've been planning this for about a year now and we've …
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