In February, I impulsively purchased a ticket to Spain to do the Camino Catalán before adequately researching it. My plan was to do the Camino de Girona, from the coast at El Port de Selva, through Figueras, Girona and Manresa to Montserrat, where the Camino Catalán begins, and then take the variant that ends at San Juan de la Peña.

As I began to plan, I saw how few affordable accommodations there were, and many of them were already outrageously priced as part of my Camino would coincide with the Puente de Mayo bank holiday in Spain.

So I decided to explore the idea of the Mozárabe and the Olvidado. (I basically want to do all the Caminos), settling on the Mozárabe from Almería to almost Córdoba.

I am a bit anxious about it and am thinking about cancelling the whole thing. Why?

I’m worried about running into impossibly high temperatures in Andalucía over the last week in April and first week of May.

As I need to book private rooms, due to a need to avoid Covid (I’m at high risk for Long Covid, despite being vaccinated. I still mask everywhere). There’s a couple of etapas where that may not be possible, but I can bus to a place where there is accommodation I think. 

I still worry about Covid though seeing as how Spain has now done away with the mask mandate on public transport. (I feel like I’m the only one on the planet who worries about a disease that has such potential to destroy lives.)

Cancelling would also save money. But who knows when I’d be able to do another Camino?

As I’m flying Aer Lingus, which for some reason, doesn’t allow TSA PreCheck, I will also have to face the security of Chicago O’Hare. 

Maybe I’m just overthinking things.

Post Camino, before a return to the US, I have a week in Corfu which will allow me a day trip (long day trip) to Meteora and another to Albania.

Am I making a mistake? Should I go for it?