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Still Going: Notes from a life in progress

David Watts Barton

Personal essays on desire, creativity, travel and the view from 70.

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A Little City, A Little Country

It’s been a week since I called the end of my Camino Mozarabe, a couple of weeks prematurely, and I have to say: Genius move. If I do say so myself.

I’m now sat on the upstairs balcony of my friend’s Anna and Marco’s place in the French co...

13 days ago
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I'm Calling It

I’m taking another rest day, in tiny Baena, only five days (and 111 hard, hot kilometers) after my last rest, in Granada.

This Camino is kicking my ass.

I hate to admit this. My god, you have no idea how much I hate to admit this. I had...

21 days ago
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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...

a month ago
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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...

a month ago
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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...

a month ago
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  • David Watts Barton

    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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