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If you could walk with someone for a few days - dead or alive - who?

David

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Hi all .. quiet time of the year, up here in England hunkered down against the winter wolf ... so .. idle thought and based on the dinner guest question.

If you could walk on Camino with someone for a few days, including dinners and wine ... they can be dead or alive, who would you choose and why?

For me it would be Thomas Aquinas for sure ... for his super bright mind, his wit, extraordinary clear thinking theology, and for him not being dogmatic

If he was busy (busy being dead) I would choose William Shakespeare - why? .. because, well, because it would be him! Himself! Think of the conversations we could have!

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Me, David. Me.
 
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Isaac Newton. How his mind bridged the most brilliant levels of science and mathematics, to queries deeply spiritual, mystical and theological. How did these diverse studies and thoughts lend mutual inspiration? We'd start out the conversation with a question about the relationship between chemistry and alchemy, and he would take the lead from there
 
Sir Patrick Michael (Paddy) Leigh Fermor DSO OBE. My hero ever since I read A Time of Gifts at about the age he was when he set out to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople ( a destination that didn’t exist ).

A chance to have a conversation with that polymath, polyglot, tatterdemalion over a glass, bottle or jug and share tales of shepherds huts and cow byres, monasteries and barracks. I think I wouldn’t mind that most of it was myth. I just think it would be fun
 
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I think I wouldn’t mind that most of it was myth. I just think it would be fun
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That's why I would choose to walk with James Bell - my late maternal grandfather. A prodigious walker and a teller of tall tales that grew ever more polished and slightly less believable with each repetition! My other grandfather was born in Constantinople when it did exist...
 
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Henry David Thoreau. Maybe ask his walking and dinner buddy Ralph Waldo Emerson along too. I often walk where these men walked and I do imagine watching Thoreau and his brother rowing past our house. A Camino with them talking about philosophy, walking and nature would be enlightening. I'm certain though that if with Thoreau only it would have to be me picking up the tab for the dinners and wine.
 
Great question!

Henry VIII I think! It wouldn’t be dull and he may well be a slower, and less fit than me! Fascinated by that era and him in particular.
 
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My husband perhaps.
For many years I walked several caminos, while he was fishing salmon in the river Tana next to our doorstep. Later on he said he regretted not coming with me when he still was able to walk a camino.
Too late now anyway.
I always walked alone and if walking with someone I would prefer a quiet person who did not have to talk all the time, since peace and quiet is what I like about the camino.
 
My maternal grandfather, gone now for 35 years. With my brother, the 3 of us explored the woods, canyons, rivers and lakes of central Texas. Learning about life, nature and how to be a decent person in a complex world. He would have loved the Camino in all of its ways. I still had (and have) so much to learn from him walking and talking in the countryside. I hope I can be as inspiring to my grandchildren as he was to me.
 
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When dreaming of walking with almost any historical figure from more than 300 years ago ... keep in mind you will most likely not understand a word they are saying even if they come from the same geographical region as you do
Ignoring that problem, it would be hard for me to choose as there are too many historical figures and commoners I would like to ask a lot about their times, history, their lives.
 
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My goodness, this has made me realize just how much of an introvert I am. I cannot imagine starting a conversation with many of the wonderful people some of you have chosen. Perhaps if I met Paddy Fermor as a tatterdemalion I might have enjoyed walking with him. It is difficult for me to imagine him disguised like that, but he did survive on Crete in WWII, so he must have been able to disguise his Englishness somehow.

I must admit there are a few fellow forum members who I think would make remarkably good company, but rather than embarrass them with the prospect of having to walk and talk to me, that is a short list that I will keep close to my chest.
 
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A big attraction of the camino is that I don't have to talk to anyone and won't be judged, but if I have to walk with someone it would be with my mum as a younger person, before the inequalities of her generation squashed her potential, before she married my dad who sapped her strength and warmth and before the dementia that took what remained. During the dementia's earlier stages I experienced the mum I had always craved - she was warm, smiled at me, was happy to see me... I like to think she returned to the person she was before an unfortunate life dimmed her light. It was a time I treasure and I would love to spend one to one time, getting to know my mum as the person she was, before life got in the way.
 
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Very stirring responses. To walk with our parents... If I were able to walk with my mother...she'd probably love Isaac Newton too... That is impossible and has been for a long time, but if we had a walking song, it would be very simple and I can almost experience it now. I so appreciate the chance to imagine it, along with all the other great dreams here.

One April day, we′ll go miles away
And I'll turn to you and I′ll say:
"I've always loved you, in my way
I'll always love you, in my way."

 
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