Pre-Pilgrim times - photos of when you were young?

[David]

Heya ... oh dear, lockdown ... rambling mind had a thought - we meet pilgrims on Camino 'as they are' and virtually meet on the forum ... but what did we look like in our formative years, decades before we became the glorious and gorgeous heroes of Camino that we now are ..

I will start ....

Me at about 3 .. looking utterly bewildered and still stunned to find I had been born on the wrong planet by mistake ... I still am totally bewildered - (older child was my half-sister). Sandals, shorts, what not to like!!



at about 18 passport photo .. pretending I know the ways of the world and hoping my beautiful blue eyes will make all women fall into my arms



And now?? at 72 saggy and baggy with a head like an old coconut that has been in the sea too long
(no photo - I break camera lenses).

 

[Delphinoula]

A quote from Robin Hood: Show yourself child....the years have been kind.

 

[David]

Ah - I thought that many wouldn't want to post current photos of themselves ... internet privacy fears and so on.

 

[NYSE]

Heya ... oh dear, lockdown ... rambling mind had a thought - we meet pilgrims on Camino 'as they are' and virtually meet on the forum ... but what did we look like in our formative years, decades before we became the glorious and gorgeous heroes of Camino that we now are ..

I will start ....

Me at about 3 .. looking utterly bewildered and still stunned to find I had been born on the wrong planet by mistake ... I still am totally bewildered - (older child was my half-sister). Sandals, shorts, what not to like!!

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at about 18 passport photo .. pretending I know the ways of the world and hoping my beautiful blue eyes will make all women fall into my arms

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And now?? at 72 saggy and baggy with a head like an old coconut that has been in the sea too long
(no photo - I break camera lenses).

That's me in St. Jean Pied de Port 16 years before I walked my first Camino.

 

[jsalt]

OK, I'll play.

I've got a different teddy now . . .

 

[Kiwi-family]

I’m still young - only just turned 50;-)

 

[Deleted member 67185]

From the Seventh Grade on the way to Jr. High School. I'm on the right.

 

[512]

How 'bout some 80's hair?

 

[C clearly]

It is so strange to look at this child and understand how she turned into me.

 

[wayfarer]

Me at the age of 3 visiting Santa with family.



At 22 (1976) in Disneyland Los Angeles.



Me two years ago in Spain for my son's wedding.

 

[Turga]

Ok, here I am.

Copenhagen 1957. I am the front rider together with my sister and my mom.



A few years ago in Trinidad, Cuba.

 

[Anik2001]

In 1975, at the age of 5, on my uncle sailboat. It’s been a while!

 

[MaineSally]

Ski School outside Oslo from ‘57-‘59.

 

[Juspassinthru]

Ah - I thought that many wouldn't want to post current photos of themselves ... internet privacy fears and so on.

David, it’s the internet, there’s no privacy to be concerned about

 

[David]

David, it’s the internet, there’s no privacy to be concerned about

Ok - was planning to keep it to old childhood photos but here is my fairly current model (with my daughter) ... though have lost 18 kilos since ...

 

[Turga]

here is my fairly current model

Ok, I'm not going to expose my fairly current model

 

[JennyH94]

Heya ... oh dear, lockdown ... rambling mind had a thought - we meet pilgrims on Camino 'as they are' and virtually meet on the forum ... but what did we look like in our formative years, decades before we became the glorious and gorgeous heroes of Camino that we now are ..

I will start ....

Me at about 3 .. looking utterly bewildered and still stunned to find I had been born on the wrong planet by mistake ... I still am totally bewildered - (older child was my half-sister). Sandals, shorts, what not to like!!

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at about 18 passport photo .. pretending I know the ways of the world and hoping my beautiful blue eyes will make all women fall into my arms

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And now?? at 72 saggy and baggy with a head like an old coconut that has been in the sea too long
(no photo - I break camera lenses).

How lucky you were at 18 not to have any spots!
Cheers from Oz -
Jenny

 

[Baggiegaz]

Ok - was planning to keep it to old childhood photos but here is my fairly current model (with my daughter) ... though have lost 18 kilos since ...

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You look very well sir.

 

[SusanSmyth]

OK, I’m in.

 

[jmcarp]

My lovely wife and I backpacking in the Grand Canyon, 1988. None of that ultralight cr*p for me! (It looks like I was posing for one of those gag photos of what to pack for the Camino.)

 

[David]

How lucky you were at 18 not to have any spots!
Cheers from Oz -
Jenny

Freckles - we with freckles don't suffer the teenage affliction ... no Acne for us!

 

[Nat2020]

Ok. I am follow you!
This is on of my favorite fotos with my grandmother and grandfather.
And then I am 50.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

@David, I am absolutely loving this thread!!!
I'm going to dig out a couple of mine and I'll be back later!

 

[trecile]

I recently came across this picture of me - maybe 4 or 5 years old.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

1.) Age 3
2.) High school graduation
3.) October 2019- Tossa de Mar, Spain

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

My lovely wife and I backpacking in the Grand Canyon, 1988. None of that ultralight cr*p for me!

Looks pretty similar to my pack and loads at the time. Our contemporary backpack adventure was Yellowstone in '89 (our '88 adventure was a drive through Portugal and Spain).

I'm too chicken to send in anything post-preteen but I can't find my photoalbum of those times.

 

[Tim O'Collins]

Ski School outside Oslo from ‘57-‘59. View attachment 73600

You still have the same smile!

 

[Camino Chrissy]

(It looks like I was posing for one of those gag photos of what to pack for the Camino.)

Wow, your pack does look like a gag photo!

 

[Icacos]

Barbeque in Venezuela, with my dad, ~ '56

 

[Tim O'Collins]

I may as well add to this

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

I may as well add to this

Desolation Wilderness near Lake Tahoe? I had a summer job in the El Dorado Forest but only got in a day hike in the wilderness area.

 

[Tim O'Collins]

Yes sir. It's beautiful up there. Never seen so much granite

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Barbeque in Venezuela, with my dad, ~ '56

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Don't know why exactly, but I always assumed you were a man!

 

[Icacos]

Don't know why exactly, but I always assumed you were a man!

You’d really be confused if you saw me now. I just gave myself a CoVid cut - #4 on the hair clippers. So freeing!

 

[Camino Chrissy]

You’d really be confused if you saw me now. I just gave myself a CoVid cut - #4 on the hair clippers. So freeing!

I only just heard of those short haircuts last week, but don't know what they have to do with the virus.

 

[Albertagirl]

Don't know why exactly, but I always assumed you were a man!

Me too. For me, I think it was the "os" ending of the name, which I vaguely thought was a masculine ending in Latin or Greek.

 

[Icacos]

I only just heard of those short haircuts last week, but don't know what they have to do with the virus.

I called it a CoVid cut because the hair salons are all closed so I resorted to a home cut. I just happen to own the hair clippers, hence the buzz cut.

 

[Former member 49149]

Yes, when I was young. Note the hand made swimming trunks worn by a cousin, with elastic thread holding them up. My swimming costume, as it would have been called, was probably a hand me down from the eldest cousin, to her sister, to my sister, and finally to me...the photo was taken "Doon the watter" on a day trip by train, with half the town. There was a railway station before Lord Beeching axed it. I had better not continue as that would get this post of mine axed!

 

[CWBuff]

Beg everyone's pardon for "my indulgence" so to speak
Pretty much all of my youth pictures are at my mom's being the old paper photos. whatever I had personally unfortunately perished in our house fire back in the early 80s (TG nobody got hurt and thats all that matters)
So.... this is what i can cobble up from what I have (nice trip through the ages)

1965 - Alupka, Crimea (what then was USSR) with my Mother
kinda what @C clearly said - no idea how this sweet boy grew into me


2010-Trente cinq ans plus tard (what then was Ukraine, now Russia) with my wife


"My Previous Life" (i.e. American Civil War Living History\Reenactment)
Ah'z rec'n it makes me 182 years young
2003 - Gettysburg, PA 140th Anniversary of the Battle ("Lt-Gen & Mrs James Longstreet")
2006 - reenactment field Bristol PA ("where are my re-reinforcements?")


2011 - Camino Inca with my son


Literally "last hurrah" pre-COVID19
2019 - Barcelona Spain (Ahhhh Tapas & Sangria)

 

[CWBuff]

And then I am 50.

Издалека долго
Течёт река Волга,
Течёт река Волга — Конца и края нет.
Среди хлебов спелых,
Среди снегов белых
Течёт моя Волга,
А мне уж тридцать лет.

Part of an old Soviet song - here is the translation of above
The river Volga flows
From far away,
The river Volga flows -
There is no end.
Among ripe crops,
Among a white snow
My Volga flows
And I am already thirty years old.

 

[Turga]

1965 - Alupka, Crimea (what then is USSR) with my Mother

You keep yourself well! I see from your avatar picture that you were a crewmember on the Hunley on the attack on the Housatonic in 1864

 

[CWBuff]

@Turga
Well.... like it or not Generals dont go into an experimental subs so ... NO!
that said (and I eluded to it in the explain your avatar thread) it is a cut-out replica of The Hunley which was used for the filming of the 1999 movie located where the sub actually lives now-a-days
We vacation in Murrell's Inlet SC pretty much every year and we always take a day trip to C-ton and I visit her every chance I get. Amazing how much work they did restoring. For a while you were not even allowed to take pics but you can now....
I also missed the burial of the crew by like 1 week. Lots of reenactment units from all over and the joke "in The Hobby" at the time was that the whole US ran out of black silk (the ladies were making widow weeps dresses)

Ah... those were the days...

 

[Icacos]

..... whatever I had personally unfortunately perished in our house fire back in the early 80s

I’m sorry about the loss of your earlier pictures.

 

[MaineSally]

You still have the same smile!

Love YOUR photos Tim! Thanks for sharing!

 

[VNwalking]

I'll play.
A photo of a photo so it's not so clear.
I'm on the right with the fuzzy hair...a trip to the beach with family friends. Maybe 1956? Or late 1955.

 

[SabsP]

1972. Three years old.

 

[C clearly]

I'm on the right with the fuzzy hair..

I can see you there! Maybe not the hair part, but the face!

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Beg everyone's pardon for "my indulgence" so to speak
Pretty much all of my youth pictures are at my mom's being the old paper photos. whatever I had personally unfortunately perished in our house fire back in the early 80s (TG nobody got hurt and thats all that matters)
So.... this is what i can cobble up from what I have (nice trip through the ages)

1965 - Alupka, Crimea (what then was USSR) with my Mother
kinda what @C clearly said - no idea how this sweet boy grew into me
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2010-Trente cinq ans plus tard (what then was Ukraine, now Russia) with my wife
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"My Previous Life" (i.e. American Civil War Living History\Reenactment)
Ah'z rec'n it makes me 182 years young
2003 - Gettysburg, PA 140th Anniversary of the Battle ("Lt-Gen & Mrs James Longstreet")
2006 - reenactment field Bristol PA ("where are my re-reinforcements?")
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2011 - Camino Inca with my son
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Literally "last hurrah" pre-COVID19
2019 - Barcelona Spain (Ahhhh Tapas & Sangria)
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I enjoyed your indulgence, Buffy!

 

[Camino Chrissy]

I can see you there! Maybe not the hair part, but the face!

 

[JohnMcM]

Then and now

 

[VNwalking]

I can see you there! Maybe not the hair part, but the face!

Haha. We change...and not.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

I'm too chicken to send in anything post-preteen but I can't find my photoalbum of those times.

I found the album. It was lying flat in a cabinet with things on top and in front of it. Here's the picture that I wanted to share with you.

This was taken on the day that can count as the start of my walking and hiking life. I was six years old and hiking up Mt. Washington in New Hampshire with my father. In the picture I'm at the Halfway House on the trail up through Tuckerman Ravine. At the top of the ravine the wind took my hat. It is likely still flying around. At the peak it was windy and cold, something the mountain is noted for (visit the link above). I was allowed into the old weather observatory to warm up at the coal stove while my father arranged a ride back down the mountain on the auto road. The observatory had chains going over it and bolted to the mountain to keep it from blowing away in the winter winds (up to 231 miles per hour or 372 km/hr).

I've been back up there numerous times since, always bringing lots of clothing and shelter. In the last 20 - 30 years I've been making sure I take a commemorative hike up at least every five years. After the next one (in 2022) I may have to start doing one each year because I'm not sure I'll be able to hike a 2027 trip.

 

[CWBuff]

I got to the top of Mt.W...but I used the cog instead of my feet
It was still cold on the top (Sept. 2007)

 

[Camino Chrissy]

I got to the top of Mt. Washington by car in 1980 and again in 2018. It's beautiful and I've always heard that the highest winds in North America were recorded at the top...if true.

 

[DoughnutANZ]

Under 5. Over 65

 

[Anniesantiago]

I ran away to Puerto Rico when I was 16.
I was about 20 years old here.
I have younger photos but will have to look for them tomorrow maybe.

 

[rappahannock_rev]

2002! Beginning of my first semester in seminary.... I was in my prime, and had abandoned a successful legal career to pursue the calling that had haunted me since my first visit to Lourdes and SdeC in 1977. A very happy man.

 

[Kanga]

Gosh, photography was not a thing in my family. I was married at 22, so I do have a photograph of that.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Gosh, photography was not a thing in my family. I was married at 22, so I do have a photograph of that.View attachment 73817

You look nothing like your avatar, although the coloring is similar.

 

[DoughnutANZ]

Under 5. Over 65
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1986, my son's first birthday. You can just see his head
Typical Kiwi shorts from that era!

 

[Kanga]

You look nothing like your avatar, although the coloring is similar.

Easy fix for that! No-one will recognise me if they meet me now.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Gosh, photography was not a thing in my family. I was married at 22, so I do have a photograph of that.View attachment 73817

Ha! Kanga, you morphed!

 

[Karen Cap]

That’s me on the left with my cousin on Mardi Gras day. New Orleans brings and raised

 

[JP]

Me and my sister on the left, I am about 8 years old. Playing soldier with my friends.

About 1974, when I was a real soldier in the Canadian Army Reserve.

Camino Del Norte late May 2019, wishing I was a 20 years old soldier again.

Playing Soldier again, Armistice Day Ceremony in Quebec City in Canada in November 2019.

 

[Cam1952]

Yup....here I am in 1953. (or so)
Fearless in the face of a challenge....
picture on left is more current.
IMHO

 

[Windwomyn]

Have to go have a looks to see if I can find some that are not on slides< not sure how to do the slide thing.

 

[Windwomyn]

Sorry, couldn’t get in order. There is me about 2 1/2 years old, 35ish and lastly me recently.
Anyone remember those lawn chairs?

 

[Icacos]

Anyone remember those lawn chairs?

I most certainly do.

 

[Old Hillwalker]

1969 to 2019 Fifty years of walking in this wonderful world. 30 YO to 80 YO

 

[Camino Chrissy]

I love this thread! Thank you, @David, for starting it!

 

[VNwalking]

Yup....here I am in 1953. (or so)

Wow! This wins the thread today - what a wonderful picture.☺

 

[Felicia V]

My sister, Joan and I, I was around 6 and she was 8, then I was 65 maybe, and she 67....but of course, reverse the pictures

 

[alhartman]

Immigrant Basin--John Muir Trail 1959. I am on the right.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Hi Al,
A memorable photo! That's quite a hat you are wearing...and quite the balancing act by turning your thigh into a table surface for your meal!
My son walked the John Muir trail a couple of years ago; his all time favorite, surpassing the AT, and Colorado Trails. His photos were spectacular!

 

[WalkingJane]

Heya ... oh dear, lockdown ... rambling mind had a thought - we meet pilgrims on Camino 'as they are' and virtually meet on the forum ... but what did we look like in our formative years, decades before we became the glorious and gorgeous heroes of Camino that we now are ..

I will start ....

Me at about 3 .. looking utterly bewildered and still stunned to find I had been born on the wrong planet by mistake ... I still am totally bewildered - (older child was my half-sister). Sandals, shorts, what not to like!!

View attachment 73527

at about 18 passport photo .. pretending I know the ways of the world and hoping my beautiful blue eyes will make all women fall into my arms

View attachment 73528

And now?? at 72 saggy and baggy with a head like an old coconut that has been in the sea too long
(no photo - I break camera lenses).

Thank you! These are priceless. I'll bet we here on the forum would find a photo of the "now you" more than acceptable.

 

[David]

"Immigrant Basin--John Muir Trail 1959. I am on the right - alhartman"




Oh My! We SO have to start a 'best camino/trail hat' thread!!!

 

[Lexicos]

Old photos tell such a story. Thoroughly enjoyed looking at the above. Great idea, well done.

 

[Botaivica]

1956, first grade of elementary school




I am third from the left in the top row

 

[KinkyOne]

I don't have any photos digitalised from my early years. This one would be the oldest, my mid 20's, 2nd year of Academy for Theater, Radio, Film and Television studies

 

[Iriebabel]

Jamaica, way too long ago and my passport pix coming to America

 

[Iriebabel]

I'll play.
A photo of a photo so it's not so clear.
I'm on the right with the fuzzy hair...a trip to the beach with family friends. Maybe 1956? Or late 1955.

Too cute , and very sweet love the hair.. we could be baby twins But I had no hair back then

 

[Iriebabel]

I don't have any photos digitalised from my early years. This one would be the oldest, mid 20's, 2nd year of Academy for Theater, Radio, Film and Television studies

Still a Kinky One after all these years

 

[Lexicos]

Breaks your heart doesn't it, to see yourself as a child?
Who among us could have guessed how our lives would pan out?
I remember having such big dreams when I was a kid. The days were big and full of possibilities and adventure. It felt like the whole world belonged to you, that you could do anything and you'd have a million years to do it all. And before you know it, 60% of it has passed before you even start to know yourself. Then you desperately try to work out how to make best use of the remaining 40% and wish that you still had 60%.
Isn't it amazing just how far we travel in the span of a life? Yep, it sure does break my heart to look at old photos. School photos are the toughest ones.
Time's ticking and we're all itching to get back onto the Camino.
I have a keen eye on that 40%.

 

[Albertagirl]

Well, I feel my body wearing out and try to maintain my function, and my ability to walk caminos, as long and as well as I can But I have been becoming myself over the 72 years that I have been alive and I am reasonably content with the results. My life is fairly comfortable. I have some whom I love and have maintained contact with over many years. I have my faith and my hope for a new adventure when this one ends. I am counting my blessings.

 

[Lexicos]

To whom I owe everything.

 

[tomnorth]

 

[VNwalking]

Breaks your heart doesn't it, to see yourself as a child?

No, actually not.
Sure, lots of dreams have gone by the wayside, because you can only do so much. And in retrospect I might have chosen to do some things differently if I'd known then what I know now. But I wouldn't change anything, (many) mistakes and all. It's the mistakes that have taught me more than anything else. And one of the best things age has taught is contentment...

 

[KinkyOne]

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Same, same, but different

 

[CWBuff]

Sure, lots of dreams have gone by the wayside, because you can only do so much.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans

 

[Iriebabel]

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans

That’s why I want to
“party like its 1999” ...Prince

 

[Canada Wanders]

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Me and my sister on the left, I am about 8 years old. Playing soldier with my friends.
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About 1974, when I was a real soldier in the Canadian Army Reserve.
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Camino Del Norte late May 2019, wishing I was a 20 years old soldier again.
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Playing Soldier again, Armistice Day Ceremony in Quebec City in Canada in November 2019.

Go Army!

 

[Shaun-Castaneda-Rio]

Breaks your heart doesn't it, to see yourself as a child?
Who among us could have guessed how our lives would pan out?
I remember having such big dreams when I was a kid. The days were big and full of possibilities and adventure. It felt like the whole world belonged to you, that you could do anything and you'd have a million years to do it all. And before you know it, 60% of it has passed before you even start to know yourself. Then you desperately try to work out how to make best use of the remaining 40% and wish that you still had 60%.
Isn't it amazing just how far we travel in the span of a life? Yep, it sure does break my heart to look at old photos. School photos are the toughest ones.
Time's ticking and we're all itching to get back onto the Camino.
I have a keen eye on that 40%.

Like your comment "Who among us could have guessed how our lives would pan out?"
In between my Grandmothers table (1967) playing with plugs and screwdrivers, I studied Marine Biology.(82-85)
But in the end I Guess I came back to what I was supposed to do - Freedbird Castaneda (2015- Present)
By the way all the lights and socket work Buen Camino

 

[Shaun-Castaneda-Rio]

In Between I took up cooking

 

[Anniesantiago]

Did I post this? About 1971 in Christiansted, St. Croix.

 

[Lexicos]

The little fella is me.
At that time and in that place we .....
Had no idea electricity existed,
had never laid eyes on a tap with water coming out of it,
didn't know there was something called the sea,
had never set eyes on something made of plastic,
there were no pens only pencils and nib pens,
had never seen a car or bus or truck or tractor,
lived with wolves and bears in Winter,
got stung by bees and wasps in Summer,
and saw my first ship and the sea in the 60s.

 

[roamingpaddy]

I am still only a boy in a mans body

 

[Lexicos]

I am still only a boy in a mans body

.... aren't we all?

 

[Camino Chrissy]

.... aren't we all?

So true!

 

[MaryLynn]

Here is me in the winter of 1951(?) with my little sister.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Here is me in the winter of 1951(?) with my little sister.View attachment 84245

I experienced similar mounds of snow growing up in Mnnesota.