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TRAVEL ̔Bikepacking’ the Camino Frances HOW ONE FINDS PEACE DURING AN ARDUOUS JOURNEY BY MAY TETTERO 4 • GREYBRUCEBOOMERS.COM
y May Tettero TRAVEL I ’ve been climbing for over two hours and it’s been raining all day. My only companion is the electronic navigation voice that comes out of my phone, which is mounted on my handlebars, and now she tells me to continue on for 550 metres. That is just over half a kilometre. Approaching the Pyrenees Mountain Range. “I can do that,” I say to myself. My mind is going wild with fantasies of what could happen after said 550 metres. A change in direction? Arrival at a mountain village? The top of this mountain? I look up at the treetops on both sides of my path and think perhaps I’m seeing some light. Despite wearing rain gear, my cycling shorts are soaked and feel like a huge, wet diaper. I’m near the top of my Subjective Discomfort Rating (SDR), but the word ‘diaper’ distracts me momentarily and makes me think of the three children I have raised into adulthood and my four grandchildren as well. The youngest grand-daughter, Noora May, is just a year old and I can’t wait to see her when I get back because she has learned to walk during the five weeks I’ve been away. It must have been half-a-kilometre by now, and sure enough, the disembodied voice tells me, “Now keep left, then continue for 1.2 kilometres.” I see I’m at another switchback and there is no relief in sight. Just as I think I can’t go much longer, suddenly I’m entering a hamlet in these French mountains. Civilization means coffee, and within a minute I see the longed-for café. Under the awning, a collection of hikers, or pelerins as they are called here on the Chemin de Saint Jacques, are seated at a table. Their packs, adorned with large scallop shells symbolic of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route, are leaning against the wall. Red and yellow rain ponchos are draped on the balustrade and make for a colourful scene on this dreary day. Community Volunteer Income Tax Program Volunteer with us for our upcoming CVITP Program at our Walkerton, Chesley, Kincardine and Port Elgin Branches. No experience necessary. Soon I discover that I have arrived just past 2 p.m WINTER 2023/24 • 5
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