Why a blog? We published our first blog in 2013, when we walked the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage. Our blog of that 600 mile walk is here. There was a time when we also posted pictures and comments on Facebook, but Karl swore off Facebook on November 18, 2016 (Leslie Ruth persisted for a while but also came to believe that too many people were revealing who they were in ways neither she nor Karl wanted to learn). Friends asked us to keep them posted on our travels, post cards are expensive and unreliable (especially from Italy) so we decided to blog. The following year we walked a Franciscan pilgrimage, the Cammino di Assisi, from north of Florence to Assisi, blogging here. In 2015 we continued our Franciscan Pilgrimage by walking from Assisi to Rome, blogging about it here.
When we retired in 2016, we flew to France and walked 1,000 miles on the Chemin de Saint Jacques from Le Puy en Velay, France, to Santiago, Spain, blogging here.
We walked 400 miles from north of Florence to Rome in 2017 but didn’t blog. We regret it – we have lots of photos, but no written memories.
Last year we dutifully blogged about out cross country trip. The blog covering our failed effort to walk Rim to Rim to Rim in the Grand Canyon in 114 degree heat appears here. Later last year, we spent three months walking and studying in Italy, and blogged here.
Like many people of our age, although we used to live on the cutting edge of technology, we now find ourselves, as we age, more and more out of date. Learning to blog has been a bit of a challenge, but, once the blog is set up, posting has proved to be fun, and easy.
Our blogs have turned out to be a great way to remember our trips – they are our journals. We don’t really know if anyone else reads them – but, long after each trip, we do! So, we hope you enjoy our blog, but, if not, we will!
We do love comments. Please post them if you have a moment. They help us stay connected while we are on the road.
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