Camino ransom (mfg)
Camino walkers bring a limited number of well-chosen items because we need to carry everything on our backs as we move from place to place.
You would think it would be easy to keep track of those necessities. In my case, you would be absolutely, inexplicably, and in sharp contest to my real life, wrong.
A short list of things I have left behind over the past 15 days:
Sunglasses (favorite pair since 2015)
Jeff’s buff (sorry, and will replace)
Julie’s hat (ditto)
Brierley’s Camino Portugues guidebook
Journal
This, even though I look around our room every morning as I pack up, and check to make sure I have everything at restaurants, cafes, rest stops. Yet my stuff disappears.
Today, with the realization I didn’t have the hat, I wondered if there is some sort of Camino toll or ransom.
Open has been my guiding word this month so maybe there’s a reason - am I supposed to be less attached to things, more patient with, and understanding of, people who constantly lose things? Maybe it’s a Camino message, or maybe I’m simply losing my mind.
Right now, I am at a laundromat waiting for my clothes to be done so I can see if I left a pen in my pants pocket.
I’m not kidding. Either I’ve lost one more thing or our clothes will be stained blue.
Not sure which I prefer, though suspect I am getting past the honeymoon stage of the Camino.
Strangely, I’m ok with all of this. Not happy about the losses, but ok.
Buen Camino.
Update: Clean laundry, no pen! Life is good. 😊