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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton
As I look at the graphic and quote WordPress suggested, it seems a little incongruous for someone traveling alone. Yet travel is about the people you meet along the way, so I’m leaving it. (And I don’t actually know how to change it, so there is that,) I am creating this blog while sitting in the airport. I knew I wanted one, I’d been telling people I’d have one, but I just never made one until now. I call it Travels and Adventures with Jane but it’s not just a travel blog. As I create it, the words of Peter Pan come to mind. “To die, would be an awfully big adventure.” Not that I am planning to die anytime soon. My point is that life itself is an adventure. So this blog will start by being about a travel adventure, but might continue as a chronicle of the other adventures of my life.
I’m sitting at my gate, waiting for my flight to be called, rapidly using up my battery knowing that my charger is checked in my backpack, but wanting to chronicle everything I’m feeling and thinking right now.
I feel naked. My backpack is checked, I don’t have a purse, I don’t have a book, I don’t have anything. As I walk down the terminal I feel strangely light, as if the trappings of my 21st-century life have peeled away and all that is left is me, my essence. I feel bereft and at the same time free. I suspect this is part of what the Camino is about, removing what you don’t need, and revealing your essence.
As I went through security the guard looked at me and asked, “That’s it?” Cell phone, two granola bars, lipgloss, and the fanny pack with my money, that was it. I’m in my hiking boots, and I felt profoundly grateful that you no longer have to remove your shoes.
So many things came together on this trip, for me to go, that I truly feel it was meant. I don’t know what will happen, I don’t know who I will be at the end, but I know I’m going to enjoy the journey.
Travels and Adventures with Jane 