REMEMBER, EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS ON THE CAMINO IS A STORY

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…But why does it always have to be my story?

September 23, 2025, Day 2

Matosinhos to Vila do Conde

Camino Portuguese

15.22 miles today

All map and elevation profiles are from Wise Pilgrim, Camino Portuguese. Please let me know if they do not appear. I loaded them into these draft pages before leaving home and I am unable to see them now.

I left my backpack at the desk for pick up by the transport company at 7:30 am

At 10:00 am I have a message from the transport saying they do not have my bag and they called the hotel who also does not have my bag. 

The transport company wants me to call the hotel to see if they have my bag. I do, and they don’t.

I check my AirTag app and discover my bag is not at the hotel but I don’t recognize the address listed. 

Transport texts again they still cannot locate my bag. I send them a screenshot showing my bag at the address.

They are still looking.

I wait half an hour and see that my bag has moved. I contact transport with a new screenshot.

They reply the bag has been found. The driver did pick up three bags and one of them was mine. He is about to drop it at our hotel.

That means that my bag is one of the three so of the original three…one of them is missing.

Now it’s someone else’s story.

Another beautiful day walking alongside the ocean
I snagged this photo of the yellow arrow along with some friends we met earlier.
A snack at the 4 mile stop
I was trying to photograph the birds on the rock and when I looked at the photo I saw that Senor Speedo had snuck in.
Beautiful little church by the ocean
House on the beach. Think we could get it for cheap? Think the Property Brothers would come and fix it up?

I haven’t gotten my stamp yet today as my pilgrim passport was lost along with my backpack, but I will rectify that later.

Bom Caminho

Published by michelleperram

I am me, a person with love for others, a passion to be creative, and a desire to be a cheerleader for others. I’m a wife, a mommy, and a grandma (you can call me by my grandma name “Lady M”). I’m on a search to grow and connect more fully with God. I didn’t grow up particularly church, married a man who had, and we raised our three daughters in the church. I found a place to belong in the church and somehow discerned a call to go to seminary. I received a Masters of Arts and Religious Communication (MARC). I went on to become ordained as a deacon in the United Methodist Church and served in media ministry and Christian education. As clergy I found that I didn’t have a place to belong in the church so I left the United Methodist Church in 2010. I still believe and I’m still on a quest to draw closer to God. And I’m going to walk the Camino de Santiago.

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