Act to Follow Chalk Cliffs – May 13, 2023

  • Møn: Day 2
  • Distance: 13.9 miles / Total 24.6 miles / 22.4 km
  • Time: 6 hours 40 minutes
  • Ascent: 613’ Decent: 701’
  • Weather: 56 degrees / sunny

With my back to the Chalk Cliffs I enter the forest, act two. Two faces of Mother Nature cohabiting side-by-side.

Anna in the forest.
Forest Orchid
Wild variety of Primrose.
More familiar variety of Primrose

Ice Age – May 12, 2023

  • Møn Camino: Day 1
  • Distance: 10.7 miles / Total 10.7 miles / 17.2 km
  • Time: 8 hours 30
  • Ascent: 1,757’ Decent: 1,757’
  • Weather: 53 degrees / sunny

The chalk cliffs are made from the remains of shells of microscopic creatures which lived on the seabed millions of years ago. As Ice Age glaciers moved, the seabed was compacted and forced upward producing chalk cliffs.

Møns Klint
Møns Klint
Møns Klint
Linda taken by Anna

Where in the World

  • Time: 31 hours from my front door
  • Møn: Distance: 4,100 mile…as the bird flies…from Charlottesville
  • Ascent: 1,630’ Decent: 796’
  • Weather: 60 degrees overcast, misting

Møn is a 237 square mile island located 75 miles south of Copenhagen. Møn is UNESCO site featuring spectacular Ice Age glacier landscape. All this to be explored by me!

Northeast Europe
Møn circled in red.
Møn is in the Baltic Sea.

Here to There – May 11, 2023

  • Møn: Distance: 4,000 miles
  • Time: 28 hours / six time zones
  • 35,000’ cruising altitude
  • Weather: 50 degrees / sunny

28 hours from my door to Møn, Denmark just in time for sunset.

Charlottesville Airport. You’ve got to love the simplicity of a five gate terminal.
Visual sightings…backpack on board. Apple Tag will take over the rest of the way.
Sunset on Møn
Anna, my Danish friend met in Japan.
All smiles, Anna

Reverence – Oct. 15, 2022

  • Portuguese Camino: Day 32 Padrón to Santiago
  • Distance: 15.9 miles / Total 439.7 miles / 707km
  • Time: 6 hours 30
  • Ascent: 1,630’ Decent: 796’
  • Weather: 60 degrees overcast, misting, light rain

How could it be that none of my tribe suggests entering the Cathedral? Having walked the Camino, did we not sense a connection to this revered place? In reality we are bone tired and growing painfully cold. Attend to the needs of the flesh than the spirit.

Mass
Used during service.
Pilgrim’s scallop shell image.
St. James’ bones.
Alter.