ItchyFootPrints
Isaiah's Travel and Family Blog
The Journey of the Blog
I started this blog in 2015 when I took an extended road trip across the USA with my faithful dog, El Guapo, who would eagerly go with me anywhere. I continued to write about some of my other global travels, but the real journey is not so much the places you go, but the people who go with you. I met my wife Kim on an international trip to Costa Rica that I organized that same year with the local Asheville organization LEAF. We’ve since made other journeys together, including our honeymoon, in which we brought back a surprise souvenir. Nine months later in 2018, our biggest journey started when our son Walker was born. Lacking the big travels away from home that first inspired this blog, my travel writing went dormant; furthermore, El Guapo grew progressively ill and had to be put down. He overlapped with Walker for 3 months. My focus centered on the role of fatherhood rather than the road. But the name “Walker” was chosen because of our shared experiencing of walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain, and the pace at which we like to experience the world on foot. And as Walker has gotten older and able to travel on his own feet, I have rediscovered in the absorbing eyes of a child, that the most adventurous trek can be a simple stroll around the neighborhood. Fatherhood is my new frontier. Thus I don’t have have to venture to some new or exotic place to have good stories to tell; this blog is newly dedicated to every-day adventures. -Isaiah
Recent Posts
El Camino, Day 17: to Hospital del Orbigo
Day 17: León – Hospital del Orbigo: 22 miles Monday, September 26, 2016: Departed: 7:15am, Arrived 4:00pm The first part of our day was winding through the suburbs of Leon, including passing the fancy pilgrim albergue San Marcos, where I think they filmed part of...
El Camino, Day 16: to León
Day 16: Reliegos - León: 15 miles Sunday, September 25, 2016: Departed: 7:00am, Arrived 12:30pm Apart from a quick breakfast stop at Mansilla de las Mullas, today’s walk was uneventful and un-scenic as we made our way into Leon, the primary focus of our day. ...
El Camino, Day 15: to Reliegos
Day 15: Sahagún - Reliegos: 19.5 miles Saturday, September 24, 2016: Departed: 7:20am, Arrived 3:00pm After a day of being sick and feeling bad, we both slept a solid night’s sleep, and probably could have slept in more, but decided to make an early start so as...
El Camino, Day 14: to Sahagún
Day 14: Calzadilla de la Cueza - Sahagún: 14 miles Friday, September 23, 2016: Departed: 8:30am, Arrived 2:30pm Today was noteworthy for good and bad – the “good” that this morning we passed the unofficial “halfway” mark between St. Jean and Santiago, which...
El Camino, Day 13: to Calzadilla de la Cueza
Day 13: Boadillo del Camino – Calzadilla de la Cueza: 26.2 miles Thursday, September 22, 2016: Departed: 6:30am, Arrived 5:30pm One of the huge things I was looking forward to on the Camino is Serendipity – taking each day as it comes. Kim and I have largely...
El Camino, Day 12: to Boadillo del Camino
Day 12: San Bol – Boadillo del Camino: 20.75 miles Wednesday, September 21, 2016: Departed: 6:45am, Arrived 3:30pm Everyone after the community dinner in San Bol went to bed fairly early, such that all was quiet and lights out at 10pm, so that waking up before...