It’s been more than a year since our last post and we are getting ready for our next Camino. We’ve had a beautiful summer marked by our sad loss of Ed’s sister, Mary (more on Mary in a separate post). Over the summer we’ve enjoyed spending time in the DC with area with many friends and family (see Ed with the boys: son, Bob and grandsons, Ryan (back row, center), Jack and Owen, above).
You may recall (see our 2018 posts) that we got literally bogged down in mud (“la boue”) in spring 2018 when we started in Lourdes in France and walked to Santander in Spain. That sticky experience led us to plan this Camino for early autumn instead of the spring (all our previous four pilgrimages have been in the springtime). And Ed was inspired to say that we should take our long-desired and long-postponed visit to Petra and the pyramids (Jordan and Egypt) at the end of this Camino. We had originally hoped to visit those places in 2010, but the Arab Spring intervened.

More on the dedication of this Camino to Mary Muldoon MacDonald, our itinerary, etc. to be put into future posts.