In her early 30s, Rachael Sanborn found herself in a bad relationship and dreaming of an escape to the Camino de Santiago in Spain, a pilgrimage her father had undertaken that had profoundly changed ...
Why, I ask myself more than once, am I devoutly following bright yellow arrows and shells — walking alone, hiking poles in hand, too-heavy survival pack on my back — into unknown woodlands, farmlands ...
Pilgrims can choose an optional route when walking the Camino de Santiago Portugués Central. It's called the Variante Espiritual (Spiritual Variant in English) route. I walked it in August 2024, and ...