A Special Place

[Juspassinthru]

Five years ago, June 2019 I carried a stone from Texas to the Camino for my Grandmother. She passed before I walked my first Camino in 2017 but I believe she would have loved hearing about my walk. I knew exactly where I would leave it, walking up to O Cebreiro looking down the valley, it reminded me of her native Arkansas.

My father passed in June of 2020, at his Memorial service, I picked up a stone and told myself that if I ever returned to the Camino, I’d leave his stone with the one I’d left for my grandmother, his mother.

Fast forward 4 years and I was once again on the Camino with his stone safely in my pack. As I climbed towards O Cebreiro, past La Faba and before the Galacia marker I easily found the place. My grandmother’s stone was gone, no surprise but I figured she was nearby. I left my father’s stone in the same exact place in early May.

So now I’m curious, is it still there? How long before it blows off? If anyone sees it, say hello. First pic is 2019, second is May of 2024. So now, I have a huge smile on my face.

Coordinate. 42.69262° N, 7.01686° W

 

[hikentravel1234]

Five years ago, June 2019 I carried a stone from Texas to the Camino for my Grandmother. She passed before I walked my first Camino in 2017 but I believe she would have loved hearing about my walk. I knew exactly where I would leave it, walking up to O’C looking down the valley, it reminded me of her native Arkansas.

My father passed in June of 2020, at his Memorial service, I picked up a stone and told myself that if I ever returned to the Camino, I’d leave his stone with the one I’d left for my grandmother, his mother.

Fast forward 4 years and I was once again on the Camino with his stone safely in my pack. As I climbed towards O’C, past La Faba and before the Galacia marker I easily found the place. My grandmother’s stone was gone, no surprise but I figured she was nearby. I left my father’s stone in the same exact place in early May.

So now I’m curious, is it still there? How long before it blows off? If anyone sees it, say hello. First pic is 2019, second is May of 2024. So now, I have a huge smile on my face.

Coordinate. 42.69262° N, 7.01686° W

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What a beautiful idea!!!

 

[OLDBIKERIDER]

So now I’m curious, is it still there? How long before it blows off? If anyone sees it, say hello. First pic is 2019, second is May of 2024. So now, I have a huge smile on my face.

Coordinate. 42.69262° N, 7.01686° W

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I live not too far from this place and I'll try and make a visit to see what I find.

 

[Juspassinthru]

I live not too far from this place and I'll try and make a visit to see what I find.

That would be awesome

 

[isawtman]

Somebody that doesn't have a stone for Cruz de Ferro will pick it up
and then will have a stone for Cruz de Ferro.

 

[OLDBIKERIDER]

That would be awesome

I'm planning to go today, I hope to have a picture for you this evening!

 

[Juspassinthru]

I'm planning to go today, I hope to have a picture for you this evening!

Your kindness is showing

 

[OLDBIKERIDER]

Your kindness is showing

Oops. Change of plan. I planned to have two young boys from the neighborhood join me for this expedition and opportunity to learn to navigate to coordinates but they had a swimming pool afternoon planned so now we are looking at Saturday. Stay tuned.

 

[Juspassinthru]

Oops. Change of plan. I planned to have two young boys from the neighborhood join me for this expedition and opportunity to learn to navigate to coordinates but they had a swimming pool afternoon planned so now we are looking at Saturday. Stay tuned.

Sounds like a great change of plans, going to be about 38 here today, wish I had a swimming pool. I hope you all enjoy your adventure on Saturday. Thank you again.

 

[Bill Krueger]

this is so cool!

 

[OLDBIKERIDER]

We made it! Two pictures, first the two boys with Camino Angel, Mariana, from Italy who helped one of the boys by carrying his backpack and loaning him her poles, standing in front of the place of interest. The second one is of the wood surface with a stone I found by rumaging around in the grass below that kind of looks like the 2019 picture you posted. Maybe not, but it was great to find it and drag it out of the weeds there.
I'll try and share the rest of the photos of our hour and a half walk from La Herrarias on a lovely day with juspassinthru.
The boys got a great experience of what the Camino is like and I proved to myself that at age 75 I can still walk uphill and down and enjoy it.