I was talking today with one of my best friends and she asked ”what is your biggest fear?” She asked if it was vermin, bedbugs, not completing…etc. I have to admit because it took me aback a little. I thought about it and responded that I believe my biggest fear is that when I arrive in Santiago that I will have had enough, be homesick, and not want to take a few more days to go to Finnesterre and Muxia on the Atlantic coast. This then led me to think today more about her question. Maybe I’m going into this adventure a little naive? I’m not worried about accommodations, eating, getting lost or anything else. Too many people hike the Camino in a year for many of the worries to be an issue.
I will say that one of my concerns early on was sleeping in a hostel with 100 other people of which many snore. I have a thing about snoring and it irritates me so much that I have trouble sleeping. I found Bose makes Sleepbuds that put a white noise in the ear and they work great. If that is my biggest concern then I will have it made. Dee has a concern that I learned about tonight and it is that my pack will get stolen. I don’t share that concern.
Stay tuned because in eleven days I embark.