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My Camino Shell Tattoo

October 20, 2016

Facebook, in its infinite wisdom and memory, reminded me last week that it’s already been “one year ago today” that I came home with my very first tattoo: my Camino shell. … More My Camino Shell Tattoo

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“Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them, and it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!” —Neil Gaiman 📚🎁📚🎁 Friends, I don’t want to scare you, but there are just 12 days left before #Christmas. (And if you celebrate #Hanukkah, you don’t even have that many.) Are you ready? If you’re a book giver, too, the holidays are a chance to share your love of all things Camino…or to drop a not-so-subtle hint to a special person you think should consider a pilgrimage of their own in the future (and take you along). But there are about 13,000 books available online about the Camino de Santiago. How do you even start to choose the right ones? On my blog Camino Times Two, I just posted my stab at a #giftguide for you: my 12 favorite books about walking the classic pilgrimage routes of Europe. (Spoiler: not all of them are in Spain.) I’m not saying that these are the BEST Camino books out there, because I haven’t read everything out there. But these are books I’ve read and enjoyed, from poetry to novels to guidebooks to memoirs, and each would make a delightful holiday gift for someone (including yourself). 📚🎁🌍📚🎁🌍 (No, I’m not recommending my own book, because that just seems tacky. If you're here, you probably already know about it, anyway. But if you wanted to buy a gift copy or two, I wouldn't object.😆) Follow the #linkinbio to see notes on each book. Or add your own suggestions in the comments. I’m barely touching the surface here. What am I missing? What are you giving people this year as a way to share the Camino? #CaminodeSantiago #whattoreadnext #pilgrimage #bookish #travelwriting #holidayshopping #authorsofinstagram #pilgrim #travelbook #books4life #walkingtotheendoftheworld #buencamino

The cathedral of Santa María in León has walls that soar almost 100 feet high and are filled with almost 2000 square feet of stained glass, spread over 130 church windows and 3 rose windows. To stand inside and survey what look like walls of glass, supporting a roof of stone, is to understand why this building has the nickname “House of Light.” And to understand that it was built between 1205-1301 is to appreciate the incredible complexity of a project like this. So much glass, with so little stone around it, seems like an engineering disaster waiting to happen. The slightest miscalculation would send the whole thing tumbling down. (Actually, in the 17th century part of the central vault of the transept collapsed due to the frailty of the building. It was rebuilt in the 19th century.) Today’s #CaminoTuesday theme is Architectural Wonders Along the Camino. And if the Gothic cathedral in León isn’t near the top of the list architectural wonders of the Way of Saint James, I don’t know what would be. The cathedral in Leon made me stop to appreciate the enormous effort that medieval Christians put into their expressions of faith. Engineered by master builders without computer design software… or even calculators. Carved by hand—one generation of stonecutters teaching the skill to the next generation, and then the next, for a project they knew they would never see finished. Thats not just a wonder of architecture, then, but also a wonder of human commitment. There are more pics and architecture notes about the cathedral on my Camino Times Two blog (#linkinbio) What are your favorite architectural wonders along the Camino de Santiago? Add your story, with the hashtag #CaminoTuesday, on your blog, or on Instagram/Twitter. #CaminodeSantiago #CaminoFrances #architecture #cathedral #Gothic #stainedglass #cathedralsofinstagram #pilgrimage #Spain #Leon #españa #santiagofriends #buencamino #chemindecompostelle #stjamesway #latergram #travelgram #sacred #throwback

Made another new friend in the park today. He didn't seem too worried about me but also didn't hang around for the photo op, so here's the #Snapchat I sent Eric. (Coyote are surprisingly common around this part of Seattle. I ran across another one, or maybe this one, exploring the yard across the street last weekend.) 🐺😆🐺😍🐺 #carkeekpark #stetwalk #urbanhikers #seattleparks #optoutside #surpriseencounter #pnwlife #womenonadventures #coyote #bitmoji #keepwalking #urbanwildlife #twilight

Break out the holiday cheer, because I just found out Walking to the End of the World is going into its second printing! 🎉🎉🎉 That means not only can I fix those nagging typos (sorry, Roy, that your name was printed Ray), but also that it keeps selling, and people keep reading it, and maybe getting inspired to a boundary-stretching adventure of their own. 📚📚📚📚📚📚 -------- Don't know what I'm talking about? Well, let me give you a #fridayintroductions to Walking to the End of the World: A Thousand Miles on the Camino de Santiago. This is my story of walking with Eric from Le Puy, France, to Finisterre, Spain in 2015. I call it a travel guide masquerading as a memoir, because I wrote it not to unravel my own life, but to inspire other people like me—the ones who think they’re “not the type” for a big outdoor adventure—to see themselves in a different way. 🏞️🌍🌏⛰️ It’s funny and hopeful, and it makes a great holiday gift for those armchair travelers and hiking enthusiasts alike in your life, including: * Retired or soon-to-be-retired family members (almost 20% of Camino pilgrims are over 60) * Francophile friends (this is one of the only books that describes walking the Way in France) * Book club friends (lots of things to talk about in here, from marriage to risk-taking to FOOD!) * Weekend hiking buddies (you know, the kind who aren’t going to hike the PCT, but love to be outside) * Friends and coworkers and family who have walked some part of the Camino themselves (we love to re-visit our own experiences and to hear about others) 🎁🎁🎁 Okay, pitch is over. Back to our regularly-scheduled Friday. _____________ #Fridayreads #holidayreads #holidayshopping #authorsofinstagram #reading #CaminodeSantiago #interweaving #travelwriting #travelwriting #memoir #bookstagram #smallpress #womenonadventures #womenwhowrite #optoutside #pilgrimage #christmas

Made a new friend on my walk this afternoon. #douglassquirrel #PNW #carkeekpark #urbanhikers #stetwalk #seattle #seattleparks #mypnw #squirrel #winterhike #exploretheworld #optoutside

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine 🌍🌎🌏 I was in the small village of Urtega, just past Alto del Perdon, when I met an American pilgrim I’ll call Callie. She’d started her Camino walk in Pamplona, and so this was her first day on the trail. “Look at this town,” she gushed, peering out the window. “It all seems so old! Do you think these buildings are real, or did they recreate them for the pilgrims?” It took me a second to realize she was serious. I looked out at the row of modest houses, made of sunbaked bricks and uneven red tiles. There was a cat climbing across a roof, hunting something. Yes, I assured her, this was all very real. It’s funny to remember now, but I did see where she was coming from at the time. Rarely does an American like us have the chance to travel outside the familiar tourist paths and witness the everyday beauty of normal life in an unfamiliar place. Today’s #CaminoTuesday theme is Local Life on the Camino, and it’s been a great excuse to go back through my pictures and remember the moments when my pilgrimage intersected other people’s everyday normal, from work to church to #football, and to reflect on the idea that my way of life is not the only way, and to be #grateful that #thruhiking the Way of St James takes us not on some set-apart holy route, but through the heart of people’s lives. What are your memories of local life witnessed along the Camino de Santiago? Share your story with the hashtag #CaminoTuesday. ------ #CaminodeSantiago #vivecamino #travelSpain #traveldeeper #CaminoFrances #shepherd #Spain #pilgrimage #StJamesWay #walk #thruhike #womenwhowander #travelwriting #womenwhotravel #exploretheworld #exploreyourworld #walkingtotheendoftheworld #travelquotes

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