Your camino calling what step are you on

[Agnogel]

For too many years i was at the bottom step sitting on my rear end will i wont i today i am one step from the top waiting patiently for August to arrive.

 

[alexwalker]

He, he.
Have been on the top step 3 times. Am now on the step right below it, going late April.

 

[StuartM]

There's no step for "I'll never do it again... actually... which one will I do next..."

 

[AshaDasi]

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For too many years i was at the bottom step sitting on my rear end will i wont i today i am one step from the top waiting patiently for August to arrive.

Have been on the top once, and am currently on step 4, wanting to do it again, but not sure when. Well done for getting off your butt! I wish you Buen camino!!!

 

[petro]

On the top step twice. now on step below - going on 8 May

 

[mspath]

I am now doing my annual shuffle between the top and the penultimate steps; after nine times this has become the norm. Looking forward to late October and starting off again.

Carpe Diem!

MM

 

[AnnieH61]

Love this. Third from the top but looking up, not down (and hoping for top step- starting in late April).
Annie

 

[Bear]

On the top step once. now on the step below - going on 27th May and on to Finisterre /Muxia then taking a bus to Porto to do 12 days of the Camino Portuguese back to Santiago.

 

[Al the optimist]

I first stepped off the top step in 2012, got my nose pierced, had a ring put through it, a rope attached with the other end looped over the Botofumiero pulley!

 

[unadara]

He, he.
Have been on the top step 3 times. Am now on the step right below it, going late April.

Me too Alex, going Apr 8th from Sevilla

 

[alexwalker]

I first stepped off the top step in 2012, got my nose pierced, had a ring put through it, a rope attached with the other end looped over the Botofumiero pulley!

Al, you know there must exist a medical diagnosis for your condition?

 

[freescot]

Having reached the top step I think I will always be back at step 3 ,"I want to do it" again. Always, though, I feel it will be my last, so step 2 follows step 3 for me. "I can't do it." I have difficulty walking like many of us oldies and so step 4 "How do I do it?" looms large - I even looked at 4x4 wheelchairs before my last Camino. Then I just walked it with a walking stick. The "I can do it" phase comes after a few days walking the Camino when it dawns on me that if I keep doing just one day at a time I'll reach Santiago.
In the end, I just set out as an act of surrender and trust knowing that in the end, if I don't make it, then so be it, because one day I will have to hang up my sandals.

 

[alexwalker]

I even looked at 4x4 wheelchairs before my last Camino.

Freescot: I suspect this one will keep us oldies going for many years to come: 4x4: Bicyclists will be peanuts on the Camino compared to us... Notice the integrated walking stick and SDs (Stone Detectors)...

 

[DeadFred]

4th from Top ... first time last week in Sept

 

[tpmchugh]

Been to top and now back on step 3. Cant fit it in this year unless I go height of summer so hopefully next May back at top of the stairs

 

[GettingThere]

I love this! So true for me. Currently on the 2nd to top step, impatiently waiting for September when I get to the top. Will be booking flights in a couple of days when a term deposit matures. I would even add a step below the bottom step, which for me was "The what? Who on earth would want to do that?!" The Camino somehow got under my skin despite such initial (apparent) lack of interest. From all that I've read on this Forum, it seems like it does that to a lot of us!

 

[quietwun]

I was standing firmly on "I WILL, " looked at the chaos and all the things to be done here, tripped and landed on "HOW?"

After a day or two of panic, I am working on one item at a time. I will still be flying on April 10. If some things do not get done......well....hopefully I prioritized well. Cannot wait to be at the airport unplugged and with a boarding pass instead of a to do list.

 

[CaminoKris2013]

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For too many years i was at the bottom step sitting on my rear end will i wont i today i am one step from the top waiting patiently for August to arrive.

I'm at the I will do it phase. I start in SJPDP on 5/26 and have actively been making arrangements and reservations...I am set for SJPDP and Orrisson for the first 2 nights...then I am trusting in the Camino.

Kris