Let's go for a Walk
“I think I’ll go for a walk, because it’s a nice day for it. Tune out the talk, take a breath and start again. And where I’ll go I don’t know but the path will show”- Lissie Last month I sang these words over and over as I walked from the French border to the coast of Spain. For over 30 days, my daily routine required little more than faithfully following yellow arrows, sign posts, tiled shells, and sometimes even arrangements of pebbles. Each sign pointing toward Santiago de Compostela. The trail is called the Camino Frances and is part of a greater web that pulls from every corner of Europe—one of the legs in France even runs past my street in Bordeaux—and leads to Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain. The Camino is a pilgrimage that first began in the 11 th century when the remains of St. James were discovered and moved to the cathedral in Santiago. Early Christians believed that healing and miracles could come from contact with the rem...