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The Pilgrimage
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This next preview for you comes from the fifth and final section of Soul Shaping Tails, bringing you with me along the Camino de Santiago, a nearly 500-mile-long walking pilgrimage through Spain. I walked the Camino in between leaving my life in the UK and returning to the US.
Every morning for nearly a month, I would wake up in a shared room in whichever part of Spain I had woken up in. I would walk all day, carrying all of my belongings on my back, until I reached the next place I could sleep for the night.
Out of my travels through over 40 countries around the globe, this remains one of the top life-enhancing treks I have ever taken.
That morning, as we left Roncesvalles, we were gifted a gorgeous sunrise with a golden sheen lighting up creamy coloured cows grazing in the nearby fields. The villages we walked through were sandstone and still sleeping beneath the blanket of the morning light.
As I walked, my stride became synchronised with others walking along the Camino, and so we naturally fell into conversations with other pilgrims that lasted hours, sometimes days. It was rare to actually sit down at an albergue and meet someone whilst not walking because exhaustion from the day’s trek meant food and sleep were all anyone really wanted upon arrival.
