6:30pm, Well, I'm on the plane to Paris! While I had been thinking of the Camino, and that it would be nice to do someday, I think it was Fr. Paul who actually said let's do it for our 60th year on earth. Well if I was going to do it, I wanted to do it, and so I asked for sabbatical time from my Bishop, and was given this opportunity. Unfortunately, Fr Paul was not able to get as much time, so I decided to stay without him, and we would meet on the trail and finish together. Now I am on the way. That was almost a year and a half ago, and I was so excited I was ready to go back then. But I realized that it was more than a year awayy, so I had better put it on the back burner for awhile. Sometimes it seemed as if today would never get here, but here it is. Thanks to everyone for your support, I know it means I'll be away for awhile, and life will go on for all of you, especially for Morrison and Chamois, but you will all be in my heart and prayers. I trust that God will take care of all of you as he will me. Next stop Paris!
12:30 am (my time; 7:30 am Paris time) the night has past and the sun is up on this first day of my adventure. Ah, jetlag! And of course as I went to pray the Office of Readings, in the first line, St Peter greets us Pilgrims (1 Peter 2; 11). An uneventful flight, we should be landing within the hour.
10:30 am, on the train to Paris, landed safely an hour ago, got through passport control, got my backpack, found the station, bought a ticket and here I am. Alleluia
2:30pm I'm sitting at an outside Cafe on the Plaza outside of the basilica of St Dennis having a Kabab. It's really happening!
