Xina, USA
“I decided to go because I felt called by something greater than me. I answered the call … Adventurers and pilgrims alike have heard it. And so have farmers and peasants and factory workers. Some listen. Some go … I am one of these.”
Steven, USA
“The shell that accompanied me all along The Way is on a decorative stake just in front of my wife’s gravestone, one last way to honor her memory.”
“More Blissful, Less Ignorant” Chuck, USA (2014)
“If my 2012 Camino was more of an introspective journey, this was more of a social one, shared with and cherished because of my companions. Who’s coming for the May 2016 reunion?”
Kelli, USA
“I came and did what I was supposed to do: recalibrated mind, body and spirit. I am a stronger, more centered me for having hiked the Camino.”
Edna & David, Canada
“Our lives back home in Calgary consist of us both working full time jobs, commuting through city traffic, and trying to balance life at the end of the day. Our lives on the Camino were balanced every day because of the simplicity.”
Amy “BrassKnichols,” USA
“Listen. Everyone had some big, monumental, life-changing reason for going on the Camino. I met people who wanted to figure out their life, get over some traumatic past event, or maybe grow as a person. Not me. I just literally had no place else to be.”
Eva, USA
“We are all on the Camino together, we all have the same goal, but we have different ways of getting there.”
Elena, Canada
“We have a choice every day – often on the Camino my feet hurt and my body was tired … each day I told myself to ‘choose’ to focus on the beautiful scenery around me, the amazing sunsets, the incredible people I met … and the little surprise joys that each day brought.”
Jan, USA
“I was blessed that each day allowed me to expand spiritually – even in the airports before I began the walk! At other times, I was blessed that while walking alone, I could feel I was walking with God. I am longing to go back.”
Grace, USA
“…now I’m a fanatic about walking 12,000 steps per day (per my FitBit), I only buy Rioja Reserve red wine, and I love to wear the clothes I wore on the Camino because they bring back such happy memories.”
John, USA
“You find your true self when you peel back the onion of routine and normalcy. The Camino gave me that chance.”
“Blissfully Ignorant” Chuck, USA (2012)
“I’ve been asked if my pilgrimage was a transforming experience. I’m not sure that I can answer that in fewer than 36,836 words.”
Greg, USA
“Months after I left Spain, I think about the Camino almost every day and it is calling me back.”
Jessica, Canada
“I came to understand that you can’t spend your life planning ahead, because you will miss the true beauty that each day has to offer.”
Dorothy / “Little Chicago,” USA
“They called me ‘Little Chicago’ (that’s where I’m from), and decided to ‘take me under their wing.’”
Doug & Amy, USA
“We wanted to jump in the ocean at ‘earth’s end’ to seek the power of the setting sun.”
Phil & Cathy, USA
“The beauty of the Camino is the ‘sameness in the uniqueness’ of each day … There is a great leveling among pilgrims.”
Tylerann, USA
“When we finally bought plane tickets in February 2014, that’s when we knew the Camino was really going to happen.”
Eva, Canada
“I think it’s in the nothingness that I found everything. I needed the shooting pain in my feet to remind me that I was alive.”
Greg, USA
“I wanted to prove to myself that I could reach Santiago, even if I had to crawl there!”