Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, home at last

[@catherinegardner3041]

I'm sitting here with a stupid grin on my face! Oh the memories of SJPP! Thank you Efrén for the amazing series. Looking forward to this year's adventures!

[@Walk_with_Efren]

Thank you so much for the donation. I'm so glad you enjoyed the series. I'm training for Annapurna and Everest Basecamp as I write this and I can't wait to head over yo the Himalayas. Life long dream

[@cindyrodriguez166]

I am also sitting here with a silly grin on my face … and such peace in my heart. I truly love all of your adventures and so appreciate you doing all the hard work to share them with us. You are an expert at your craft … I am magically transported to wherever you are each and every time. The information you provide, and the humor that comes along with it, is the best. I look forward to your episodes covering your adventures to Logroño … as I am finally getting to do a Camino myself … The Frances from SJPdP to Santiago in mid August. I am beyond excited. Btw … I talk about your blog so much, my husband refers to you as my “Camino Boyfriend”. 😊. I figured I could share with you as we are in our 60’s. 😎

[@dgsanchez1000]

Efren, Thank you, Thank you! Doing the Podiensis and French at once, You brought me back to the Chemin. As a Catholic priests, I had to be cheap: eating light, staying in communal gites, and carrying my backpack. In 59 days I only spend $1800. You will be surprised that I flew from Louisville, KY - Ft. Lauderdale - London- Lyon, back A Coruna - Lisbon - Newark -Louisville ($945.00). I prayed so hard that the director of the Speed Museum in Louisville (now at the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach) sponsored me, only with one condition: to start from LePuy and visit his home town Conques. I see that people sponsor you, how may I?

[@Walk_with_Efren]

I'm glad you enjoyed the videos David. wow congrats $1,800 for 59 days is an achievement. my viewers sponsor me in different ways: Memberships, PayPal donations, and or purchasing merchandise. The links are all on every vlog's descriptions.

[@alejandramguerrero5885]

YOU ! …YOU are the trail angel , Efren !!So many Thanks for a gorgeous , informative and spiritual ride across France ! Your pictorial ending bought tears to my eyes . You are the best ! Keep on keeping on !🌄

[@BumblebeeAdventure]

Thank you so much for taking me with you on this journey

[@theresaokamoto3202]

This last one made me so excited as I am leaving for my first Camino The Frances August 2022, From SJPDP to Santiago! Thank you Efren! Now I am hoping I can do this one next year!

[@alanlandy11]

Sitting in the last stamp albergue in Santiago watching you enter SJPDP was a nice end to my Camino. I love the videos and advice, keep doing what you're doing

[@emilys9524]

By the way, I made an international friend during my two weeks on the Podiensis and she told me she watched this series before leaving, too! You help so many pilgrims feel prepared and inspired

[@Walk_with_Efren]

It's incredible how many of the current hikers on the trail saw my series.

[@TheAnactoria]

All good things must come to an end, but without endings we would have no fresh beginnings! Efrén, mi amigo, my heart is overflowing with gratitude to you for shooting this vlog for us all. It is without a doubt, some of your very best work. What a gift you have given us with your amazing talent, your time, your effort, and your inspirational positive vibes. ¡Muchas gracias! Here's to the next adventure!

[@Walk_with_Efren]

Thwnk you do much my friend. You are too kind. I hope you enjoyed seeing your patch on my backpack. Little Easter 🐣. Thwnk you for suggesting the via podiensis, thwnk you for the Pilgrim Passports and thank you for your support.

[@TheAnactoria]

@@Walk_with_Efren I loved it. Thank you. ☺️

[@awalters468]

Thanks for posting. My wife and her friend are soon departing to take on this walk. The information you have provided in these series of videos has been great. Thanks so much 🙏

[@revlindaumc]

Such a happy face you had entering SJPP! This was a wonderful series. I enjoyed it! Thanks, Efren.

[@JenniferAlkaPhotography]

Thank you so much for sharing all your experience with us. Next year i want to go all the way from Germany, through the via podiensis and after that the Camino del norte. You're videos help me a lot to get information and inspiration. Muchas gracias 🤗

[@farmerhavingfun]

Wow, you really treated yourself on the rest day. lol Good for you!!! :) Congratulations "again" on returning to the beginning. I feel like I need to re-watching your 2017 Camino Frances videos again. Take care and be safe out there.

[@emilys9524]

LOVE YOUR VIDEOS SO MUCH! I'm on the via podiensis in France right now (Rodamadour variant). I watched your beginning videos before I left and I will watch the rest of your Podiensis videos when I get home. NGL i kind of hate seeing drones in real life but the footage you capture is so stunning and honestly better than my own on the ground perspective could be sometimes so I love to see the gorgeous aerial views that you share.

[@caioercosta0202]

Nossa estou amando e sou brasileiro e estou assistindo todas as séries e vídeos desdo primeiro, AMEI um Fera e vou fazer este Caminho !

[@petshopgirl39]

I think this is your best vlog series yet - well may the Primitive as a close second, although I've just started watching your Norte series...its all so good! I absolutely loved watching you walk the Via Podiensis. Thank you for getting me through a cold, wet and now stormy February. Greetings from the UK!

[@oldsambo]

Great series I am using it for planning our walk in 2023 as I recover from Covid. Congratulations on super videos

[@yocastatapia-lugo85]

Efren, gracias for all your beautiful videos!

[@catherinetodd8185]

You're a champion, so good, well done. Thanks for the journey and all the information.

[@timothywinn2346]

Inspirational Efran. For me, well I felt the excitement of arriving a Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port as I did on first arriving in the city of Santiago de Compostela and again in Oviado a while back. A wonderful journey I'll follow shortly starting in Geneva to Le Puy-en-Velay and then in your footsteps to Santiago.

[@sandraperez2898]

What a wonderful journey ❤ Congrats and thank you for sharing your experience with us. Loved it!!!

[@claudioluizlamego8467]

Just finished. Me and my wife enjoyed a lot all the videos ( you are truly an artist on the editions and on the drone views). Now is our turn, we start on the 8th of april and plan to reach Roncesvalles on the 12th of may, with 3 stop overs. Good luck on all your caminos. We will surely follow you and even walk also some of them. Thank you and see you around! Claudio

[@Walk_with_Efren]

Buen camino Claudio

[@Rogar0]

Yep, your end Efrén was (like most others too) my begining! The Via Podiensis GR65 was a Magical Camino and I have enjoyed it imensely and have got to know you, I reckon pretty well. Thank you for this one and I shall be following you of course through to Logroño! Fantastic footage, fantastic Drone footage with professional editing and audio with it. So it just leaves me to say ¡Buen Camino y Salud! 👣🌞😎

[@shirleybowker8000]

Efrén Gonzáles, your suggestion of doing the route in reverse, is brilliant! Has anyone here, done it like that?

[@Walk_with_Efren]

I saw a couple of pilgrims doing it.

[@killeenstraide1]

Thank you Efrén, thoroughly enjoyed this adventure with you.

[@JonathanMarcusGSmith]

Many thanks! As always this has been such a wonderful journey and I am very grateful to have been able to follow along. I am so glad that you have had such a better time of it in France this time round. Looking forward to your next camino adventure... and a week on Friday I begin my own as will start the Via Turonensis from Paris. Best Wishes

[@DavidGregTaylor]

Love it. So proud of you, Efren!

[@seanclark2085]

Wonderful 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@michaelstout317]

you are wonderful - I did the Frances last September /October always enjoy your videos and you make me want to go further perhaps the Puy perhaps after knee replacements lol -best to you

[@stevenmedina4320]

A-Maz-ing!! Seeing you walk through SJPP brought back a ton of fond memories. Bummer that I missed seeing, as I départements SJPP on 16 de Septiembre 2021. Thanks again Amigo

[@helenebergsten707]

Thank you Efren for the absolutely stunning series. You have opened my eyes for the Via Podiensis, which seems to be a wonderful camino. Maybe this fall... Good luck with your forthcoming adventures. I will follow you closely.

[@johnrubino4463]

Hi Efren, What luggage service did you use on the GR65? Thanks for the wonderful videos! Be well, John from Pompano Beach

[@Walk_with_Efren]

Hi John. I used la mella postal, transporte claudine, and jacotrans

[@johnrubino4463]

@@Walk_with_Efren Thank you!

[@Magooej22]

So exciting seeing you walk into St Jean. Wow! Great video as always. Stayed one night in St Jean on August 31 2017. It was moving seeing the main street and the church where we went to mass.

[@verinxo]

This series was pure magic. Looking forward to your next adventures. Greetings from Switzerland.

[@Walk_with_Efren]

Thank you so much Estefan. I'm so glad you liked it. btw love your country

[@verenama6519]

Beautiful aerial shots of SJPP, wow. Great video, helpful explanations. You're an inspiration. Muchas gracias y buen Camino 😊 mucha suerte en Nepal 🥰

[@K57939]

Ahhh 💛💛💛 … Efrén me encantaron todos los videos que hiciste de esta caminata por Francia. Gracias por darme la oportunidad de conocer lugares tan bellos. Y ahora que terminaste este camino qué hago yo mientras tanto? 👻👻👻

[@Walk_with_Efren]

Muchas gracias Ana. Ya comienzan los videos de Nepal

[@willhopkins4848]

Thank you Efren. Great series. One of your best ever. Certainly up there with my favourites - CF 1.0 and the Via. All the best for your adventures in Nepal. Ultreia!

[@alejandramguerrero5885]

Thanks!

[@Walk_with_Efren]

Thank you so much Alejandra for your suppurt.

[@alejandramguerrero5885]

@@Walk_with_Efren De nada , brother … u da bomb!!

[@walkitoff117]

Hey Efren what drone are you using on the GR65?

[@Walk_with_Efren]

The dji mini 2 but the 3 just came out amzn.to/2VGqT33

[@DanielOutdoors]

You said 2000 Euroes, i think you ment 200 Euro? Or is it 200 for one day?

[@Walk_with_Efren]

2k for the entire trip. The daily costs are on the vlog's description.

[@DanielOutdoors]

@@Walk_with_Efren 2k including fly tickets from US for you i presume? If not its pretty costy to be a pyligrim journey. Its Nepal coming now after Via Podiensis?

[@Walk_with_Efren]

2k on the ground costs without flights. I would say it's around $400 more than I spent on my original camino Frances in 2017. Yes the Annapurna vlogs start next Saturday followed by Everest Basecamp