I didn’t sleep well so I was awake and standing on the veranda at 4am to watch the sun rise. The valleys were filled with fog and as the sun turned the sky orange an amazing symphony of bird songs replaced the silence. I was cold but couldn’t leave the morning I was being treated […]

We packed and headed to the train station for an 8:30am train departure to St. Jean but the trestle bridge over a river collapsed a few days prior to our arrival so buses were arranged…another transportation blip. Arriving in the small village we found the pilgrims office and got our pilgrims passports and a shell […]

The TVG high speed train flew south past the bright yellow and green fields at a 184 miles per hour. The five hour ride was comfortable and after several trips to the dining car for beers we had forgotten the last two days of flying. Bayonne was a relief. We had finally made it and […]

I met Tim at the gate for our British Airways flight (operated by American) to Chicago which went smoothly, arriving with plenty of time for beer and pizza. We boarded the flight to London a half hour late and sat on the plane for another hour and a half as thunderstorms and flashes of lightning […]

The Camino de Santiago (Way of St. James) pilgrimage dates to the 8th Century. The normal route begins in St. Jean Pied de Port, France and ends nearly 500 miles later in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. I was made aware of the walk a couple of years ago by two friends and the idea took […]