Brien, USA
“The young man made the short walk over to my location near the cistern and said, ‘What is the second thing the pilgrim needs?’ I sat silently, having no idea, so he said, ‘Patience. You must have patience.’ Then he spun the wheel a bit more and voila, water appeared, flowing from a pipe near the large wheel.”
Carlos, Spain
“‘Milestones’ like ‘the next day,’ or ‘the next coffee shop’ were what gave me the strength to go on. In this way, the Camino puts you in ‘can-do’ mode, even though it’s so long and difficult.”
Family Silas, Finland (2015)
“In so many ways, this Camino was different than the one we did before, but it had a lot the same, too. The one thing that doesn’t changes is how deep and memorable an experience it is. One day, if we are able, we will return to the Path. As a family, of course!”
Family Silas, Finland (2014)
“We learned a lot about ourselves and about us as a family. It was an experience that we could never have really understood before we started the journey. Now we are sure that this Camino was our first, but not our last…”
David, Spain
“Being from Spain, the fact that I lived no more than 4 hours by car to my home could make the arrival to Roncesvalles a bit less exciting than it would be for people coming from around the world. However, I remember feeling a strange connection with everything the moment I got off the bus.”
Marc, USA
“The Plaza del Grano brought me images of thousands, maybe millions, of citizens and pilgrims doing their thing for hundreds of years before me. I felt a part of that plaza like few other places along the Camino.”
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?”
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.”
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.”
Dorothy / “Little Chicago,” USA
“They called me ‘Little Chicago’ (that’s where I’m from), and decided to ‘take me under their wing.’”
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.”
Greg, USA
“I wanted to prove to myself that I could reach Santiago, even if I had to crawl there!”