Bienvenidos!

Conchi and I have a mission: To walk the ancient pilgrimage route from Conchi's hometown of Sevilla to Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain, a distance of approximately 1000 kilometers. (620 miles). Start Date: Mid-March 2007. Estimated time required: Seven weeks.

For those interested in following our progress, we'll be posting to a discussion list and to this blog along the way. You can follow us either way. We'll be making the same posts to both the list and the blog. The advantage to the list is that you can automatically receive a summary email on any day new material is posted to the list. You can unsubscribe from the list at any time by following the link at the bottom of each message. To protect your privacy, your name and email address will not be viewable by anyone else. To keep things simple, the list is ANNOUNCE ONLY.

The advantage to this blog is that it provides a richer environment with links to photos and sites of interest. You can also post comments on the blog. Simply click on the word 'comments' that appears at the end of each post and you'll be able to read what others have said and leave your own comments. The amount of personal information you reveal here is entirely up to you.

You will have to visit the blog manually to check for posts, unless you are clever enough to subscribe to the blog with your own RSS or Atom news reader. I know that Google Reader will retrieve posts from the blog, but I can't make any promises beyond that.

You can subscribe to the discussion list at Google Groups by visiting:

http://groups.google.com/group/Viadelaplata


We leave for Sevilla on March 9, 2007. I probably won't be posting again until we arrive, so until then....