Why did I walk with no backpack and no sleeping bag and no raincoat and no money? For three primary reasons — A) so that there could be no doubt to any passersby as to the enormous difficulty of The Walk and thus the immense selfless service it ever embodied, B) to offer a continual […]
I made good time today despite my aching feet (in large part due to the impromptu companionship of fellow walker Patricia, with whom I walked for many miles and with whom I shared some lovely and quite meaningful conversation about literally everything of true & current importance — from the futility of party politics to […]
I finished up my writing in the church as the rains stopped falling and the sun returned, and I decided to stroll through town to give Mullheim one more chance to “win the lottery” by taking in this wayfaring pilgrim and giving a brief respite to his aching legs. So I wandered around a bit, […]
It was only 3 miles or so from Mullheim to Auggen, and the way was relatively easy to tread. As such, I made it to the latter village with quite a bit of daylight left at my disposal, and yet still found it challenging to find any place warm and dry to rest my weary […]
As if the warm kindness shown to me by Michi & Urs and the warm shelter given to me by Bernd weren’t more than enough, the former dropped by late that same night to bring me a vegan gift basket (having been mildly disconcerted that no vegan alternatives were available for me in the bar […]
While it remains a patent Truth that serving others is the only Way any of us can hope to experience any real & lasting sense of deep-seated Peace &/or unbridled Joy, at the same time there is nothing wrong with pausing during said moments of willing self-sacrifice to soak up the immense Beauty that ever […]
I humbly admit that there is a metaphoric appropriateness to be found in coming across a golf course that has been built alongside an age-old pilgrimage route (e.g. unifying the material with the spiritual; combining the meaningless pursuit of pleasure with the meaningful path of the pilgrim — with both striving to attain a similar […]
Over the course of my 5+ month, 4000+ km walk, I will readily admit that there were many times (like in the first picture below) when I had no idea where my correct path lay or in which specific direction I should have been heading. And in every single one of those moments, I simply […]
One of the greater challenges I experienced during The Walk was not knowing exactly where I was headed, especially during the early portions of the trek that traversed Germany & Switzerland — two countries where the Camino de Santiago was not nearly as popular, and thus two countries where the Camino routes were not as […]
I had already walked roughly 30km on this particular day (many of those kilometers simultaneously very thirsty and somewhat despondent) when I came to the next fork in my Road and the time to make yet another decision — Would I walk directly to Weil am Rhein on the German/Swiss border or would I heed […]
There were many times during The Walk when it seemed as though the folks placing the path’s (often sparse) waymarkers had done so as though a hidden camera had also been mounted nearby … I was sometimes misled by such chicanery, but not that often … 😀 “One day you finally knew what you had […]
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