Journeys: The Fourth Experience
When you write about the journey and share it, your pilgrimage of the pen creates a fourth experience.
Travel Mercies
My gut had been right, but I didn’t know that for sure when I asked for help.
Saying Goodbye to Santiago
The Cathedral is a great place to use up Euros. There are many stations where you can light a votive candle and make an offering. The ritual has always soothed my inner child. She was Catholic. Though my belief system has shifted to the left - the far left - it’s still a place of peace for me.
Sharing the Way to Sigueiro
“ Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” —Izaak Walton
Palomar As a Metaphor
Notice the sole entrance on top in the photo, designed for pigeons to enter. Never to leave.
A Home Away From Home
Sometimes, the soul of a place becomes part of you and becomes a true home away from home.
Onward From Travesas
There’s an unsettling feeling about being alone on the road in the morning that’s intensified when a van draws near.
Casa Rural Costa de Egoa
The casa, a converted stone water mill on the banks of the Abelleira River, was more than I expected.
From Anceis to As Travesas…
“For every disciplined effort, there is a multiple reward.” - Jim Rohn
The Trouble With Signage
If you haven’t figured it out by now, I rather suck at signage. And I’m okay with that. I even embrace that…
A Most Circuitous Route
Knock and the door won’t be opened. I just needed to get that bit of cynicism out of my system.
Christina
(Today’s blog comes with a trigger warning or two.)
Meeting Christina, in the arched entrance to Obradoiro Square by the Cathedral, on her knees, eyes downcast, with a sign pinned to her chest, moved me to tears. You see, in order to cash in my travel miles to come on my pilgrimage, I had to leave my brother, who was part of the street community, not knowing if he’d be alive when I returned.