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What is your perspective on this rather metaphysical question?

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This is why my first long-term effort will be solo reconnaissance.
Where I benefit is that I have a one-way ticket to give me an open-ended return. If Beloved Boy cannot manage without me, I can turn around and come back and do my work with students in Granada remotely. If he can get by without me I can stay in Spain until the sabbatical duties end… and we can talk about the benefits of living somewhere that would not be just “getting by”.
I’d like to find a place where we can do better than “managing” as the *best* option and swirling the drain as the more common mode.
 
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Speaking as an Ontarian, the Bruce Trail, wonderful as it is, isn't really a substitute for the Camino experience. It does have the length. At 900 km, it isn't that far off a walk from SJPP to Finisterre. But it lacks the infrastructure. It doesn't even seem to have the infrastructure to support a through hike that the major American trails like the AT and PCT have, with available camping areas few and far between. With no albergues, every night would be looking at a hotel or bed and breakfast and subject to their availability It is really set up for section hiking. There are quite a few people who have hiked the whole thing, but they seem mostly to do it section after section, rather than as a through hike. And with Covid, they are calling for people not to attempt to thru-hike and are advising that even the Club Section End-to-End hikes are likely not to happen this year.
 
David Tallan said:
Speaking as an Ontarian, the Bruce Trail, wonderful as it is, isn't really a substitute for the Camino experience.
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Fair enough. I was winging it and it was late when I wrote. I was thinking about the Spanish pilgrims I've met along the Way (at least those that walked some distance, not just starting in Sarria). So many have seemed to be surprised - in a good way - about what they found out about their own people and country. But for sure, Ontario doesn't currently look like it has the right ingredients (for that kind of fresh meditation on the state of things around one) to work.
Reckon I could pitch it to Hollywood though: think Cheryl Strayed's Wild blended with Robert Redford in A Walk in the Woods - yeah?
 
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