Day 48 – Acri to Rossano, Italy – 45km
One of the funny things about a walk is that it can go 98% according to plan, predictable as can be, and yet it’s the two percent that determines the outcome of the day. I slipped out of the agriturismo before 6am, as planned, hoping to carve out as much time as possible in Rossano […]
Days 46 & 47 – Civita to Acri, Italy – 69km
After a high-level mountain crossing, these two days brought me down to sea level and then back through more gentle hills. They also immersed me in a land rich with layers of religious tradition, extending the Italo-Albanian focus in Civita and the cult of Marian worship further north, adding another strand to the Basilian presence […]
Day 45 – Madonna del Pollino to Civita, Italy – 26km
It’s amazing what happens when you cross a mountain range. When one crosses the Cascades, for example, traveling from my home in Portland to the eastern half of Oregon, the lush, verdant landscape suddenly transforms into an arid range, thanks to those mountains hoarding the constant rain for the Willamette Valley. As for this walk, […]
Days 43 & 44 – Galdo to Madonna del Pollino, Italy – 60km
This is a mini-vacation of sorts, the first two of three days all around thirty kilometers or less. And, given that the first chunk of the walk from Galdo continued on the rail-trail, the terrain continued to be quite forgiving–at least for a while. The Calabro-Lucana railway, which once passed here, is characterized by the […]