It really can be hard to let go when you reach the end. Savor your memories and begin planning your next Camino.
Someone on this forum once wrote something like when I’m not walking a Camino I’m remembering my past Camino and planning my future...
That is called "Camino Blues".
After my first part of Camino, 3 years ago, I felt it very painfully.
Now, every time I walk my first step, I am thinking "Remember this walk will have an end, and that you will come back to normal life".
It helps...
I even felt like that after fifteen months of travelling with my family. I was the only one not ready to go home. And I felt it after my first five caminos, even the one that lasted nearly three months. But this last one...not so much. I wanted...
I guess I am on the other end of the spectrum. I have found a deep appreciation for anyone that will volunteer their time to be a moderator (a thankless job by any standard). Each individual - both mods or members - usually do the best they can...
I am appreciative of how the moderators give so much of their time moderating, and also post their Camino ideas and opinions. Thank you moderators!
I do find the title question a bit disrespectful to them.
If they were paid, I could see the...
We can bicker and grouse like an extended family. But if Ivar and/or the volunteer mods (and let's not forget, that's what they are, people giving up their time to commit to doing this) said 'OK I've had enough of you entitled ungrateful mob, we...
A very good answer.
In my personal experience, having been both suspended and banned from the forum over the past 12 years I have been a member, I speak with some small degree of first-hand knowledge.
The moderators are there to keep all...
This thread is a marvelous example of a bunch of good people making a salient point while trying not to hurt anyone's feelings. Hopefully the salient point is not lost on everyone.
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