It was frankly hard to believe that the town of Estaing was even real as I rounded a bend in the trail and saw its majestically medieval spires rising up before me — right out of a King Arthur movie, that vision was, truly … 😀 “The castle, and all it represents, will be with […]
Yes, the medieval city of Estaing was stunningly beautiful, and yes, the employee in the tourist information center was kind enough to let me send out a quick email update for free (to all my friends & family who had been following The Walk online), and yes, I was able to meet back up with […]
I had been told by fellow pilgrims in Estaing that the next several kilometers would be a very difficult climb … In one of the few times that Camino rumor matched pilgrimage reality, the steepness of the path didn’t disappoint … 🙂 “Destiny rarely stands in the way of the wise, and never in the […]
As I was trudging up the day’s long &steep incline, a fellow pilgrim named Mike blew right past me in a most fit & quite impressive fashion, pausing just long enough to exchange a few pilgrim-pleasantries and inform me that he had been regularly walking around 50+ kilometers (that’s over 30 miles) over the past […]
“On any long walk, after inevitable periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body become disunited to the point that they seem to be completely different elements; as though my body were only a home within which my mind has been associated but is by no means bound. In such moments my […]
This proved too be one of the most arduous days of walking to date — 37+ kilometers long, comprised of either steep & prolonged pathways &/or rock & mud-strewn trails; the last several hours of which all under a steady rainfall … 🙁 To make matters even more challenging, I was repeatedly rejected at the […]
I trudge-limped onward into the gathering gloom — my clothes soaked and my shoes muddy and my body exhausted and my legs once more in quite a bit of pain, and finally made it to the outskirts of the small village of Golinhac. I was pretty much at wit’s end at this point, and would […]
No matter where we are or where we are going or what we have planned, it is always Right & Good to start each day off with a conscious dose of gratitude (mixed with a sincere expression of resolve — an openly professed intention to go forth that particular day to make the world a […]
“Let us refuse to remain anchored in the quicksand of a waning past (and thereby lose the war on our integrity), but rather heed the bracing call of each new horizon, grabbing firm hold of the opportunities in each fleeting instant, and then enlivening the courage embedded within those moments.” ~ inspired by Erik Pevernagie
“Walking a spiritual pilgrimage is a direct reflection of living the truly Good Life. On one hand it is true that each of us must determine which path to take and how far to walk — that the proper manner and best speed with which we each walk will be (and indeed should be) completely […]
The going was a bit more challenging than I had at first expected (due in part to the strenuous nature of the path itself, and in part to my hips somewhat loudly protesting the extreme effort that the previous day’s walking had required), and yet I did finally make it to the Gite au Soulie […]
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