A BEEB podcast from this morning and featuring one of my besties and former roomies as dental students, Linda…up at around the 7.30 mark.
Ramblings - Camino Memories with the Ciao Ciao Girls - BBC Sounds Ramblings - Camino Memories with the Ciao Ciao Girls - BBC Sounds
These Ciao Ciao Girls have been hiking/rambling the N.Yorkshire moors and beyond for about 15 years or more. They’re Prepping for the Via Francigena in October this year.
Colour me envious
One of my sisters and her daughter may walk part of the Camino before we get together with cousins in Bilbao next summer for the solar eclipse.
The daughter just got 179 on the LSAT. She’ll be through her first year of law school next summer. She is a recent Cornell graduate. Mom wants to give her the summer off.
Depending upon what “part of” actually means, preparation is the key. The Summer is likely to be very hot and dry (nothing like Ithaca!) The trips that Linda and the GRRRLZ make have tended to be around early Fall. Our trips back to the UK are usually timed just before and we generally have a roomies’ get together in Yorkshire and share the itinerary etc.
Linda and Claire (her sister in law and first up on the podcast) live along The Cleveland Way, a popular walking route and training ground (when you can dodge the tourists)…
Cleveland Way - Wikipedia Cleveland Way - Wikipedia
I think the Camino trip was their first jaunt overseas with a small group and even out of the height of Summer, the weather was a bit of a shock…seeing as they were used to conditions more like upstate NY.
Congrats to your family. I remember the daughter’s summer between undergrad and vet school (Cornell)…a very joyous time for us all.
This is that summer after undergrad. She’s very unhappy. She is a major city training college students to canvass door to door. The hours are endless. She is not doing the other around-the-year work she likes. The pay is poor.
She does not know which law school will take her in the fall. But with 179, she’ll get into one of the top schools. She had a 3.9 GPA at Cornell. Something to do with foreign affairs and languages. She wants to be involved with environmental law. Possibly policy-driven work.