Listening and talking are daily components of the Camino. The conversations may include lengthy life-stories, or the conversations may comprise only two sentences passing along information. The conversations may last… Read more

No matter what one thinks, nobody can walk the Camino without depending upon the Spanish people and world along the Camino. As I walked the approximately 790 kilometers from St.… Read more

“He’ll Regret It” and “I Need to Find Myself” are words that I heard on the Camino. “He’ll Regret It” captures the occasions of romance on the Camino. “I Need… Read more

Walking 500 miles on the Camino takes me back to basics. After the first day, I became especially aware of what moves me from place to place- my feet. Being… Read more

Being a peregrino on the Camino, I am surrounded by history. For example, since I was ignorant of some features of St. Francis’s life, I did not realize that he… Read more

Centuries ago along Spain’s Camino, there were physical reminders of the Christian perspectives. A peregrino would walk past churches and cathedrals, stone crucifixes marking crossroads or town squares, past nuns,… Read more

I know that sometimes the temperature might be in the 90’s. I know that there are albergues which have bunkbeds for 160 peregrinos, but only in two or three rooms.… Read more

In our hall at home is a framed print with the Shaker words “A Gift to Be Simple.” “Tis the gift to be simple, tis the gift to be free,… Read more

While walking the Camino across northern Spain, I became conscious of three powerful images of St James: St. James the Apostle, St. James the Peregrino, and St. James the Moorslayer.… Read more

I do not want to appear morbid; however, I am sometimes intrigued by cemeteries. Those cemeteries often show how individuals respond to death. The way individuals are remembered by words… Read more