I just discovered the magnifying glass feature on photo edit. (What? Was it always there?)
Magnified, below, hanging on my wall is my Compostela--the certificate you get for walking the Camino de Santiago.
It's from 2001, when I walked with bink---ten years later we walked again, this time with Marz (+ blog-friend Eeva for the final 100km to the sea).
Ms Moon commented that she hadn't realized I'd walked the Camino.
I was surprised and pleased because I used to mention it so often I feared I mentioned it too often. Forty-eight posts!
If you're interested, you only need to read THIS ONE:
"I Never Slept with Charlamagne".
Marz showed up at my door this morning wearing a hiking backpack. She's thinking of walking the Camino again, this summer, and was out walking around with a loaded pack to test out her shoes.
Twelve years ago, she walked the Camino in--I kid you not--a pair of old CROCS.
She was twenty, but still.... Everyone else was wearing, like, NASA-grade gear.
I magnified a Croc, here below, for proof.
Marz had fallen down from laughing at bink singing in a Chipmunk tone, not because her shoes had no support.
The path is definitely not always this smooth. Or flat.
