2008 … My very first Camino
And then later this same year I began to walk the 555-mile pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago; 40 days of walking from St. Jean Pied du Port (in the French Pyrenees) all the way to Finisterre on Spain’s northwestern coast. This particular image was taken during that journey, and indeed accurately;y reflects how walking The Way with fellow pilgrims along the Camino often appeared near the beginning of each day (In this picture I am the fifth pilgrim from the top) – though oddly enough it never took long for each of us to find ourselves completely alone while sauntering along its mostly broad & winding Path …
“Come dress yourself in Love; let the Great Journey begin … Indeed, a journey is a person in itself, and no two are ever alike. And on any greater pilgrimage all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercions become fruitless, and one finds that after days – and sometimes weeks – of pointless struggling, the pilgrim will always relinquish him or herself to The Way. And he or she stops taking a walk, and instead allows the walk to take him or her.” ~ via Francesca da Rimini & John Steinbeck
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