Today I received my renewed US passport and am ready to travel.
In preparation for my upcoming pilgrimage walk, I will be sharing details of my plans through periodic blog posts. This will let me share with you more interesting details than does my current Rosa's Journey Facebook page.
In October 2022 I plan to walk about 6 weeks along 930 km of the Via Francigena Sud in Italy. The itinerary will take me from Formia, in the coastal Mediterranean western Lazio region, inland through Campania, Basilicata, and to Santa Maria di Leuca in the Puglia region, along its eastern Adriatic coast.
The entire Via Francigena is more than 3000 kilometers, from Canterbury, England through France, Switzerland, and Italy to Rome and Santa Maria di Leuca.
Step by step on mountain paths, mule tracks, rural and secondary roads, ancient Roman roads, cypress-lined dirt roads or among majestic pines. Under my feet will be the oldest streets and villages of these beautiful countries. Streets paved with river stones worn by the passage of time.
Over the past 6 years, since 2016, I have walked about 1500km through Switzerlsnd and Italy on the Via Francigena from Lausanne to Rome to Formia. (This is in addition to my numerous other extended pilgrimages on the Camino de Santiago in Spain) This next Journey will take me from Formia, Italy about 100km on the coast south of Rome to unfamiliar interior areas of Italy filled with ancient history, landscapes, cultures, languages, architecture, religions, and gastronomy. I look forward to meeting the local residents and sharing their culture, as well as encountering other international pilgrims.
In preparation for this trip I am training physically to walk about 20km or 6-8 hours per day, carrying bare necessities in a 12 lb backpack, sleeping in monasteries, b&b's, pilgrim hostels, and welcoming hosts.
I will follow a guidebook and gps tracks that each day lead me through farmlands, hillsides, and ancient stone roads, to a new small village or town filled with ancient history.
I will share more of these details as I go along.
Here's a video clip from my walk from Rome to Formia in January, 2020, just before covid started. I look fowrard to continuing!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/QAtoHm2tEekNX4aB6
looking forward to your journey. I wish you a safe Camino. Ultreia!
ReplyDeleteThank you Ingrid. I hope all is well with you. Any Camino plans?.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to your updates , the Del Sud is on my bucket list
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