First day with a backpack and two psychological observations

I am training for a pilgrimage to Europe -Three countries and a 500 mile walk in Spain. Yesterday I donned my backpack for the first time.
I have some interesting observations about this for you,.

Follow along in the adventure and support me on Patreon here:
https://www.patreon.com/epicfantasy

Stories and pictures from my city:
https://www.stormthecastle.com/travel/fall-river.htm

More about the upcoming adventure and pilgrimage:
https://www.stormthecastle.com/wills-pilgrimage-to-spain.htm

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:18 first psychological observation
03:29 second psychological observation
06:17 Summary and about the upcoming adventure
07:15 more information and how to support Will

#travel #caminodesantiago #backpacking

Picture credits:
Most of the pictures are mine but here are the public domain pics
taken from Wikipedia:
Sistine chapel credit:
By The original uploader was Snowdog at Italian Wikipedia. -
http://artchive.com/ftp_site.htm Transferred from it. wikipedia to Commons by Pierpao using CommonsHelper., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18462479

The last supper credit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Supper_in_Christian_art#/media/File:%C3%9Altima_Cena_-_Da_Vinci_5.jpg

Lourdes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lourdes#/media/File:Lourdes1994-1.jpg
Joergsam, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons