After walking for several hours through the drizzling rain, I arrived in Freiburg and spent several hours drying off in the lovely library there. Even though my ankles proceeded to swell up to the size of large oranges after those many moments of non-movement, I eventually set forth once again — intending to head southwest […]
After a relatively restless night spent trying in vain to sleep on the cold hard floor of a classroom in the St. Georg Catholic Church just south of Freiburg (a space that was almost reluctantly offered at day’s end by that chapel’s surprisingly suspicious priest), I set forth early the next morning and soon made […]
Hobble-limping onward through the morning’s misty rain, ultimately into the village of Kirchhofen, I pause for awhile in the delightfully dry confines of that town’s gorgeous Catholic church; laying down on its cool floors to better prop up my aching and somewhat swollen ankles on one of its confessional’s warm wooden walls — resting peacefully […]
It may seem silly to many of you, and yet one of the more astounding feats of will I displayed during the entire Walk happened on this day as I neared the town of Ehrenstetten, when (after having eaten nothing but two small rolls of bread over the course of the previous 2 days) I […]
Walking onward through the woods towards the town of Staufen, through the cool mistiness of this particular Germany’s early Spring, I soon came across a most lovely grotto — one being carefully tended by an elderly gentleman. It turns out the man, Mr. Lehmgruber, was the original creator of this spring-fed sanctuary, and he was […]
There will be times in your life when you choose to champion a Moral Cause* and are met with ridicule or rejection … Champion that Moral Cause anyway. There will be times in your life when you set forth to do a Great Good* for others and are met with snide denigration or doubting naysayers […]
Many folks often wondered how it was that I found my way homeward; how it was that I successfully navigated the multitude of paths & byways that crisscrossed Germany & Switzerland* in a manner that often seemed more randomly helter-skelter than calmly thought-through. Well, the solution proved to be far more simple than commonly supposed. […]
As was often the case during my Great Walk (especially during its initial days), on this day I found myself wondering when I was going to be offered food (or whether I was going to be offered food at all). And yet as was just as often the case during my Great Walk (indeed throughout […]
Why did I walk with no backpack and no sleeping bag and no raincoat and no money? For three primary reasons — A) so that there could be no doubt to any passersby as to the enormous difficulty of The Walk and thus the immense selfless service it ever embodied, B) to offer a continual […]
I made good time today despite my aching feet (in large part due to the impromptu companionship of fellow walker Patricia, with whom I walked for many miles and with whom I shared some lovely and quite meaningful conversation about literally everything of true & current importance — from the futility of party politics to […]
I finished up my writing in the church as the rains stopped falling and the sun returned, and I decided to stroll through town to give Mullheim one more chance to “win the lottery” by taking in this wayfaring pilgrim and giving a brief respite to his aching legs. So I wandered around a bit, […]
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