Allen, Nathan, and The Road to Santiago

If our flight plans weren´t interesting enough, the ensuing train ride to St. Jean Pied de Port was the icing on the cake...so when does the Camino begin...

From Bordeaux to Dax to Bayonne to St. Jean Pied de Port (the intended starting point of our journey), only took four trains, 6 hours, some harried train to train transitions which we quickly mastered, and one very angry french train conductor whom we could not understand despite being told 3 times something about our bikes (we ignored him), we met Tilli and Buddha.

Tilli (our first Camino Angel), her husband, and her dog Buddha had been walking the camino for 57 days from Belgium when Tilli began to have an irregular heart beat in Bergerac where doctors informed her that she would have to take at least a week off. Tilli trained to St. Jean Pied de Port to wait for her husband who continued on foot. Tilli´s wish for us "I hope you meet yourselves"