It didn’t take long at all for my journey HOMEward to hit its first major “roadblock” – a challenge that manifested itself in the form of a kidney stone that had me literllay collapsing to my knees in anguish in the early morning hours of September 13^th. How fortunate I was that the same chose to “visit” me while I was still in Germany, a country that has an excellent healthcare system; a healthcare system that cares for those who have absolutely no money just as well as it does for those who have a lot of the same …

“Well, it seems that I have now been called to offer a fresh corollary to the well-known saying ‘Make plans, God laughs.’ And that addition — at least relative to this particular walk — now reads: ‘Set plans boldly in motion, and God all the more heartily guffaws.’ For in my current case God’s chortling was quite clearly heard in the wee hours of this past Thursday morning – a celestial snickering that came in the form of a kidney stone … Yep, that’s right. After a mere four days of walking I was quite literally knocked down by a quite indescribable wave of pain – a wave of pain that had me literally crawling form door to door in the little town of Hochdorf, ringing doorbells repeatedly until I finally woke someone who was willing to call me an ambulance to come and take me off The Way …” ~ excerpt from my WHP journal

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