What is a perfect Camino? Can such a thing even exist? In late June I walked the Camino Aragonés, a 10-day pilgrimage from Oloron-Ste-Marie, France, to Puente la Reina, Spain. Technically, the first three days of my walk were on the Voie d'Arles, a ...
Recent Blog Posts
15 Photos that will make you fall in love with the Camino del Norte
I've returned home from my European summer adventures, and have so much to share. I'd had good intentions of blogging while I was away, but it seems that in the last few years, "live" blogging from my Camino has become quite difficult. I love ...
Surefooted
Today as I walked I thought about the word 'surefooted'. I thought about it as I was descending a small, steep path in the woods that was covered with stones, some of them wet. I had to watch the ground, I had to be careful about where I placed each ...
A ribbon and a monastery
I promised myself I wasn't going to commit to any long posting while on the Camino (for fear that without enough time I wouldn't post at all), so I'm here with a photo and just a little story. I want to share all the details: how I went the wrong way ...
More Recent Posts
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- My Notre-Dame Story
- Day 13 on the Pennine Way: Greenhead to Bellingham, 21.5 miles
- Day 12 on the Pennine Way: Alston to Greenhead, 16.5 miles
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Trail Guides
Planning a Walk on Hadrian’s Wall Path
One of my intentions with this blog is to begin to provide more useful content for others who are planning their own long-distance walking adventures, and so in this spirit, I'm going to be writing up a few short guides to some of the walks that I've done. And first up: how to plan for a walk on ...
In the Footsteps of Pilgrims; an Overview of the Camino de San Salvador
Quien va a Santiago y no a San Salvador, sirve al criado y deja al Senor. He who goes to Santiago and not to San Salvador, honors the servant and forsakes the Lord. I saw these words painted onto the wall of the albergue in La Robla. It was the end of my first day walking the Camino de San ...
