Embark on a spiritual path of enlightenment through the famed Camino de Santiago.
Walking the road to Santiago de Compostela has always been on this long list of things I would like to accomplish in my lifetime. The Camino de Santiago—or what people often refer to as just the Camino —is a network of pilgrim roads marked with yellow arrows leading to the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain where St. James or Santiago is said to be buried. Every year, tens of thousands of people traverse these roads in search of some form of spiritual enlightement, a physical challenge, or simply just an adventure.
I first read about the Camino from Brazilian author Paulo Coelho who wrote about his mystical 800 kilometer journey from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port to Santiago de Compostela on his first novel The Pilgrimage. The idea of flying all the away to Europe only to walk hundreds of kilometers seems crazy. but, for someone who wasn’t sure of where she was going in life, the prospect of walking a medieval road laid with arrows pointing to a specific destination was attractive. When I walked, I was in dire need of a break to figure out what steps to take in my career and the road offered an ideal environment to reflect. That November, I packed my bags, flew to Madrid, took the train to Galicia, and embarked on the journey that would eventually change my life.
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