It all began with a phone call from my sister in Beijing, around Christmas in 2021.
Sister: "I am tired of being stuck in China."
Me: "OK."
Sister: "I would like to walk the Camino de Santiago next year."
Me: "OK."
Sister: "Would you like to walk, too?"
Me: "OK."
No, walking the Camino de Santiago was not on my bucket list. Heck, I don't even have such a list. However, walking the Camino de Santiago had been in my mind for a long time, well before the turn of the millenium, even though it was just an idea. I just didn' know when or how I was going to do it, but there it was, an invitation to walk, out of nowhere.
We all had been going through the pandemic, and we were all tired of being stuck somewhere. (Who would have thought in March 2020 that it would last more than 2 years?) COVID-19 had shut down pretty much everything around the globe, and we weren't even sure if we could actually pull it off. But just thinking about it gave me a boost to my mundane daily routines.