Hays Travelogue

Greetings from Santiago de Compostela. Tam and I walked the Camino, the historic pilgrimage to Santiago, from Pamplona–with help of a bus ride from Burgos to Leon to repair my feet. We hiked 520 kilometers. I swear, I’ve hiked my whole life and have run half my adult life, and I have never had blisters [...]

End of the Earth. We are in a bar watching the match between Germany and Italy. We just walked out to the lighthouse and got our last sello (stamp) at a little church along the way. This one marks the ¨Fin de Camino¨ — the end of the road. Then we had a tapa dinner [...]

We arrived in Santiago around 2:00 this afternoon, went to the pilgrim office and presented our credentials and received the Compostela, a document written in Latin that attests that we made this journey. Tomorrow we´ll go to the Pilgrim Mass at noon. I hope they swing the big censor; they call it the ´smoke-belcher.´ This [...]

Hey All, Update: I’ve moved the Google Map here because it was not playing nice with my blog template. Sorry for the plain-jane look. On the other hand, it ought to work with no problems. just in case the Google Earth thing hasn’t worked out for you and even though I like Google Earth better, [...]