Bill Bennett is a very common name. Right now, I'm reading a book by the Australian film maker Bill Bennett. He hiked the Camino in 2013 and then wrote a book (and made an Australian movie, not available in the U.S.) about it.
Seems he kept a blog about that hike, too. I went to look for his Camino blog, and found he started one years after the hike, but he didn't post regularly... His last post from 2022 announced his had Parkinson's and had kept the diagnosis secret for 4 years.
Now that almost three years have passed from that post, I wonder what's happened to him.
Blogs are weird. They just sit there. Anyone can stumble upon them, and read them. So I decided to keep looking for his Camino blog.
https://billbennett.blog/home/
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And I found another Bill Bennett, this one from New Zealand, who keeps a microblog. It's current and updated.
"What's a microblog?" My wife asked. Well, I said, it's a small blog. Just a sentence or two for a post. No need to develop. Just get the thought record and put it out there. Looks pretty cool. I'll probably follow him to see what pithy things he posts. Looks like he's into technology and maybe he's a journalist?
https://billbennett.micro.blog/
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But about the Austrian film maker with Parkinson's Bill Bennett. Is he okay? Well... so his Camino blog is still available, and...
Yeah, he's doing okay. He and his wife just completed a 51-day U.S. tour screening the film. Sounds like he sat and watched it 48 times. And they'll be back in May to do it some more. Weird. As far as I know, the film never got a standard run in the U.S., but he was over here to watch it with people, and people came to watch it with him?
https://pgstheway.com/
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