This is bound to encourage some kind of curse, but we seem to be ready to print out the book for the first proof. After a few days of binary eps file warnings, flattening, and converting to curves, things seem to be printing OK. Only a couple of days behind schedule. Maybe not a publishing first, but certainly a Pili Pala one!
Daphne called this afternoon to say she has left hot spain for cold vancouver. Welcome home Daphne. We have lots of things for here but first we have to solve a tech hitch. Our images are not printing in the text. Hopefully we can solve it soon so she can start proofing. Need to get cracking so we can get the book of to the printers
After a week of looking I found the missing notes in a pile of folders in our office. Thank goodness we have not lost them. Oh the joy. If you listen carefully you can hear our screams of joy. Yeah Yeah Yeah! Must have moved them when we laid the new floor! Made my day!
My eyes are squinting from adding in lots and lots more tiny little
places in Galicia that now boast an albergue, a hotel or a café. It
sometimes seems as if there’s somewhere to stay or eat every kilometre
of the camino in Galicia. Part of me (the squinting part) is cursing
these entrepreneurial Galicians.
But the more reasonable part
of me is glad that the people who live in some of these tiny hamlets
are maybe able to make a living in their place of birth. It certainly
makes a change from the later decades of the twentieth century, where
rural Galicians migrated to cities, or even overseas to South America,
and farmers and fishers gave up their traditional livelihoods in the
face of globalized competition.
I wish we had a little button we could press when we lost something and it would flash where you put it. I have spent half of today looking for a pile of notes which for the life of me I have no idea where they are. I know they have never left our office or at least I believe they have not left the office. Maybe I freaked out and threw it in the recycling? An unknown unknown no less.
So we have done a first go through of the text and inserted most of Daphne del Camino’s updates. We have left out a few to be added to our website because they will mess up the layout and we are pushed for room. We don’t want to add more pages and make the book heavier.
Tonight we are going to sit down and once more go over the distances. I have lost count the times we have tried to work out distances already. Seems everytime we do a book or map we have to go over the distances again. I wonder if anyone can figure this out for good. We took a GPS with us last time and still we are wrong at times. Maybe we need to walk the camino with one of those wheel thingies.
Trying to follow Daphne’s notes can be easy or hard I think it really depends on her level of interest of that stage. I know it does with mine. I have to keep remembering not to second guess her and just follow what she says. Hard when I know the route so well.
Had a known unknown today Barbara a american woman and her husband Dwight emailed me after last seeing them struggling up the Alto de Padon almost 4 years ago. Funny how people catch up with you. I wonder if she did any paintings like she said she was going to do? She wanted some books for a group she is taking back to the camino. It was a pleasure to help her out. Maybe our paths will cross again? Sometimes I wish I had a crystal ball so I could see what all the people we met on the camino are up to now. Where is German Frank? or the strange man from Italy who said he was going to walk home then walk back along the camino and do that for ever with no money. He had already been walking the camino for 6 months by the time we met him?