How I feel about the Camino de Santiago in a sentence, a paragraph, and a page.
I love the Camino de Santiago!
I can't believe I actually did it! 740 km walking over one month. I made some new best friends and created some new best experiences. I didn't become the minimalists or independent I was planning on becoming, but plans seem to take a back seat to a lot on the Camino. Spain is beautiful, and I met nice Spanish people who were very kind to pilgrims. Finally, I felt moved spiritually several times in ways I definitely did not expect.
The hospitalero in Reliegos, on one of our last days of the meseta, told us the the first third of the Camino, from Roncesvalles to Burgos, was physical. The second third, from Burgos to Leon across the meseta, was psychological, and the last third, from Leon to Santiago, was spiritual.
When I first heard that, I wanted to punch the man in the face. I was in such a bad mood at the time that I told myself I didn't want to walk anymore. We had just passed the half-way point a few days previous, at which I thought "only half?" I was tired of walking. More than that, I was tired of walking to nothing. The meseta, if you are unfamiliar, is a giant plateau of flat, flat fields and little else. The past few days
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