Accidental Pilgrim : The Decision to Walk the Camino Frances
Pilgrim on the Camino Frances Where does a hike or pilgrimage begin? Is it when you step onto the trail? Is it when you purchase your airline or railway tickets? Is making the final choice to go? Or is it a decision woven in parts and pieces throughout your lifetime that slowly put you on the path? I can say with all honesty that before my best friend asked, I had never really thought of long-distance hiking. Sure I had trekked 100 and 200 km stretches of the Bruce Trail , hiked along 50 km pathways in Algonquin Park or walked in amazing places such as Banff National Park , However, the fact was that deep down I had never even considered thruhiking or something as long as the Camino de Santiago. If the truth was to be told, until that point I had never even heard of it and knew almost nothing about the country of Spain, or the Way of St. James. Indeed, (if a second truth had to be told) I am not even particularly “religious”. P...