We’re back!

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After 4 months on the road traveling with our movie The Way, My Way, we’re finally back at home in Mudgee – and my goodness, it’s great to be sleeping in our own bed again.

It was an extraordinary trip –

  • 8 weeks in the US and Canada doing Q&A screenings,
  • Three weeks in Germany supporting the film’s theatrical release.
  • A side trip to Hungary for a special screening in Budapest with our dear friends Balazs and Laszlo – both feature in the film.
  • Three weeks or so in England, Scotland and Wales.
  • Then back to Canada and Vancouver to attend the annual North American Gathering of Camino pilgrims with a special screening.
  • Then back to Europe and Malta to attend the European Assembly of Camino pilgrims, with screenings for the Spanish Ambassador, the Australian High Commissioner, and other dignitaries.
  • Then from Malta back to London then back home!

Overnight I slept for nine hours straight.
I never sleep nine hours straight!

I have emails long overdue need replying to, finances to sort, social media needs attending to, plus I started writing a new novel while I was away and I have a deadline in two weeks to deliver the first 25k words to Penguin Random House. Then there’s the sequel to The Way, My Way that Jennifer and I are starting to ramp up – not to mention kick starting my exercise routine once again, getting my eating regime back on track, and so on and so forth!

I never want to travel again.

Until August, when I have to go back to California for more stem cell treatment for my Parkinson’s.

I tell you what though, I love Australia.
I’m proud to be an Australian.
We’re not without our faults and problems, as with any country –
But I’d prefer to live here than anywhere else in the world.
And in Mudgee in particular.
With Jennifer.

Now, back to work!

9 thoughts on “We’re back!”

  1. Hi Bill and Jennifer. Happy to read that you are happy to be back at home and busy. I just finished reading your book the Golden Bridge on Sunday. What a great book. I will try my best to blog about it soon but I am like you so busy with many things. However…I promised that I was going to do it and I will. Take care. ❤

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  3. Welcome home Bill and Jen !!

    BTW I just finished reading about 20 minutes ago “posts from a blog that became a book that became a film” — and I LOVED it !!

    Most of the Portuguese Caminho posts were new to me, I think mainly because I was in very intense training for my 2014, and it was a delight to read them some time after my own Caminho. Good stuff Bill !!

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  4. /Bill, sorry I didn’t get to your screening here in Phoenix. Would have loved to meet you! “The Way, My Way” was great! Very enjoyable with a lot of good conversation, food for thought.

    The song at the end caught my attention. Very catchy, so I had to look up who performed it. Went to Dan’s page and found he’s doing the Portuguese in September. I thought, too good to pass up! A walking concert! So I’ll be with him on the Portuguese. My 2nd Camino, I did part of the Frances (Leon to Finisterre) in 2019.

    I didn’t realize you had PD. My dad had it for 10 years…masking, slow processing, shuffling. No real tremors. No incidence of PD on his side of the family, so I suspect it was due to head trauma. He was DX’d about 4 years after the head trauma. He found a music therapy group here in Scottsdale called “Tremble Clefs” in 2001. I’m still with them in his memory. For patients it’s voice therapy…for me it built confidence. I couldn’t sing for beans, but now I’m willing to try a solo. Here’s info on the group. Tremble Clefts Arizona – Parkinson’s, Parkinson’s, Music, Therapy.

    Looking forward to September on the Portuguese! And a possible sequel to “The Way, My Way!”

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