One of my very favorite Camino Pilgrims shares his latest update. This young man quit his job in the USA and bought a 1-way ticket to Europe. He has already walked the Vezelay trail and now near completion of the Camino Frances. Whew, he will have 1000 miles completed in one go! Nathan is a gifted writer, who has shared his pilgrimage in such thoughtful detail and with soul-searching depth that I find myself eagerly awaiting his next post.
My time is fast approaching. Tonight I am in Samos, 130 km before Santiago de Compostela. Despite the rain—the one constant feature of rugged, green Galicia—I will probably be there within the next week. When I first started the Camino from Vezelay, on August 18, the end was simply too far away to envision, like the Sahara to an Eskimo.
The closer I get to Santiago, the less I seem to walk each day. Yesterday I covered only 9 km to O Cebreio—that after a grueling 30 km through a much less-traveled alternative route that climbed three small mountains, but for someone who has already gone nearly 1,000 miles on foot, nothing fazes me anymore.
Maybe I should reconsider that statement: the purely physical demands of the Camino de Santiago have long ago fallen away. It is the mental aspect which I struggle with, especially as I grow closer to…
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