A FUN WALK TODAY

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September 30, 2025

Camino Portuguese, Day 9

Total miles walked 12.41 miles

Tui to O Porrino

It’s good to be back in Spain. Portugal was amazing and the food was great. I struggled with the language. In Porto everyone spoke English but as we ventured northward it was all Portuguese. We had one hotelier who would just speak into his phone and show us the translation.

It was actually an easy day for walking.

We passed a group of school kids (about 12-14 years old). It was warming to my soul to see them. I’m sure they have no idea what they are in for and I’m sure like all teenagers they will become difficult. Yet I wonder what our school children, or even our own children would be like if they walked 200 miles together. I would love to take my oldest granddaughter (11) and my oldest grandson (8) to walk the last 100 km together. No phones, no tv, no distractions. Just the camino mantra of walk, wash, eat, sleep. That would be amazing to me.

One way leads to an alternate route and one leads to the actual camino. Which would you choose?
My first tarta de Santiago on the Portuguese Way.
What are these?
I think they are for training up or supporting grape vines.
A bagpiper remeniscent of what awaits in Santiago.

I love to take pictures. Early in our marriage Glen gave me a beautiful Canon camera. I never really grasped the intricacies of the f-stop or exposure because no one taught me. My grandfather was an amateur photographer. Sadly he passed away when I was 5, but sometimes I imagine him giving me a little brownie camera and teaching me about light and composition.

My stamp in Tui

I’m not sure where my second stamp is and I’m pretty sure I got one, but it’s not in my pilgrim passport.

Buen Camino

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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