On my first Camino three years ago, my friend Rick and I would see people with small daypacks. These were the people who hired a service to bring their packs to their destination instead of carrying them themselves. “This walk would be a piece of cake if I wasn’t carrying a pack!” Rick would say. “Yeah, I…
Month: September 2015
Judgement Days–Or Lack Thereof
Prior to my first Camino I spoke with a woman who had spent a week walking The Way. She stayed in hotels the entire time and had her pack ported from town to town. She was the first one to tell me that “Everyone does their own Camino.” During my Camino, I wrote an entire…
Paying It Forward
In 2011, when I first hatched my plan to walk the Camino de Santiago hardly anyone I knew had ever heard of it, let alone walked it. But I was lucky enough to get first-hand advice from people I have not, to this day, ever met. Nine months before my departure I was a host…
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