Several years ago, amidst a busy career in education, I decided to do something that would profoundly shift my perspective. My husband and I embarked on a self-guided walk in the lesser-traveled ...

Everything feels new enough to demand attention. After that point, something changes. The route doesn’t suddenly become easier or deeper, but different things start to matter. What felt important at ...

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 ...

The Camino is formed by its useful and social infrastructure beyond religious structures. Hostels, fountains, bridges, ...

Source: Brendan Kelly Each year, tens of thousands of people throw on a backpack, lace their boots, and head off across northern Spain to walk the Camino de Santiago, an ancient pilgrim path. Some ...

The missionary to pilgrims shares wisdom from the trail. Five years ago, Barrett Harkins walked Spain’s Camino de Santiago—an ancient Christian pilgrimage walked by over 500,000 people each year—for a ...

In early 2017, I scuffled through the hallways of the building where I worked. My hands pooled with sweat and my stomach flipped. It was time — after many months of intricate planning — to quit. In ...

After the punishing summits of the Pyrenees, the Camino to Santiago levels off in Spain’s La Rioja region and the wine for which the region is famous flows copiously at many of the hostels, or ...

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 ...