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burntwater | 1 year ago

The Camino is vastly superior, just in a very different way.

ETA: I shouldn't say it's vastly superior, rather the Camino is a very, very different experience from the trails alluded to here, and is superior in relation to that experience.

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joking|1 year ago

Él camino de Santiago is actually an ancient pilmigrage route, It has some variants but the main one has a lot of traffic and it's not rare to make friends as it's a very social route.

burntwater|1 year ago

I loved thinking about people 500 years ago walking on the same stones I was walking on, and thinking about what the exact spot I was currently standing on was like back then. What did it smell like? What did you see? Were the fields this open or were their more trees? Did you run into a lot of people?

Lots you can think about on the trail.

huytersd|1 year ago

I’ve done a tiny piece of the Camino. It might as well be a paved greenway.

burntwater|1 year ago

Then you did a tiny piece of it and have chosen to extrapolate from that tiny piece.

If it's not for you, that's totally OK. It IS something for many other people.