Still Going: Notes from a life in progress
David Watts BartonPersonal essays on desire, creativity, travel and the view from 70.
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Granada: First Big Milestone of the Mozarabe
The last time I was in Granada, Spain, was in 1980. I was hitchhiking from Paris to Morocco, and was picked up right outside Paris by a jolly young French woman whose name I forget now, who was going to…Morocco!
So we drove together for th...
Camino Notes #3
The black line is this first third of Camino Mozarabe; I’m in tiny Quentar, just to the east of Granada. The Sierra Nevada have been in view for most of the walk.
The Camino is improving. Or I am. Or both.
After a pretty rough week to s...
Week One of Camino Mozarabe Ends
Vale!
And on the seventh day, he rested. And went to the emergency room.
It’s been a week since I started Camino ’26, and today is my first rest day. I need it.
This has been a challenging Camino. All Caminos are, of course, and this is...
My Camino 2026 Begins
I began in Almería on the Costa del Sol, hiking toward the original Sierra Nevada.
Greetings from the first albergue of my Camino Mozarabe 2026. It’s not so special. But it’s better than walking.
I flew last night from Barcelona to Almer...
Weekend Confidential, May 2, 2026
I’ve finally come to rest for a few days, this time in Sitges, Spain, just down the coast from Barcelona. I flew into BCN because it’s just so damn cheap! While airfares are a bit pricey right now, I got this one, JFK>BCN, a couple of month...
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Journalist, diarist, and singer/songwriter David Watts Barton posts about the people, places and ideas he encounters on his travels from his home base in Ho Chi Minh City. Albums on Spotify; book, Japan From Anime to Zen, on Amazon.com.
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