It was only 3 miles or so from Mullheim to Auggen, and the way was relatively easy to tread. As such, I made it to the latter village with quite a bit of daylight left at my disposal, and yet still found it challenging to find any place warm and dry to rest my weary […]
As if the warm kindness shown to me by Michi & Urs and the warm shelter given to me by Bernd weren’t more than enough, the former dropped by late that same night to bring me a vegan gift basket (having been mildly disconcerted that no vegan alternatives were available for me in the bar […]
While it remains a patent Truth that serving others is the only Way any of us can hope to experience any real & lasting sense of deep-seated Peace &/or unbridled Joy, at the same time there is nothing wrong with pausing during said moments of willing self-sacrifice to soak up the immense Beauty that ever […]
I humbly admit that there is a metaphoric appropriateness to be found in coming across a golf course that has been built alongside an age-old pilgrimage route (e.g. unifying the material with the spiritual; combining the meaningless pursuit of pleasure with the meaningful path of the pilgrim — with both striving to attain a similar […]
Over the course of my 5+ month, 4000+ km walk, I will readily admit that there were many times (like in the first picture below) when I had no idea where my correct path lay or in which specific direction I should have been heading. And in every single one of those moments, I simply […]
One of the greater challenges I experienced during The Walk was not knowing exactly where I was headed, especially during the early portions of the trek that traversed Germany & Switzerland — two countries where the Camino de Santiago was not nearly as popular, and thus two countries where the Camino routes were not as […]
I had already walked roughly 30km on this particular day (many of those kilometers simultaneously very thirsty and somewhat despondent) when I came to the next fork in my Road and the time to make yet another decision — Would I walk directly to Weil am Rhein on the German/Swiss border or would I heed […]
There were many times during The Walk when it seemed as though the folks placing the path’s (often sparse) waymarkers had done so as though a hidden camera had also been mounted nearby … I was sometimes misled by such chicanery, but not that often … 😀 “One day you finally knew what you had […]
As I flow-limped along and steadily got closer & closer to the Swiss border, an odd mix of excitement and nostalgia welled up from within. After all, it appeared more & more likely that on this day I would enter the second country on my Great Journey homeward, AND as such would leave Germany — […]
There were supposedly three primary Camino tributaries that flowed through Weil am Rhein to the German-Swiss border, and one of them — the one I intended to take — supposedly led to a pedestrians-only bridge (named the “Peace Bridge”, fittingly). Of course, as is so often the case when plans are made, God begins chuckling […]
And then, after all the warnings I had received about the sternness of the Swiss border patrol and all the consternation I had felt about encountering the same, I set out from Ingrid & Edmund’s house that afternoon and within five minutes smoothly crossed a bridge into Switzerland — a bridge that had no border […]
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