With my new novel Lost in the Fog soon-to-be published, in September of 2019 I embarked on a four month trip to France, Spain, Portugal, and the Caribbean. The main reason for the journey was to hike the Camino de Santiago, a 550 mile pilgrimage. With this blog, I am excerpting from the journal I kept. As David Lynch once said "getting lost is beautiful".
November 4, 2019 – Fisterra, Spain For six weeks and 550 miles I’d been perfectly healthy (outside of a few blisters) walking across Spain. But I wake on the morning J’Nell and I are to leave for Portugal feverish and nauseous. With 6 hours of bus rides ahead of me, this is no bueno. It feels…
October 20th (Sunday) – 11:15 pmAlbergue Aqua, PortomarinToday’s Walk: Sarria to Portomarin Hard to believe, but today J’Nell and I begin the last 100 kilometers (62 miles) to Santiago. We’ve been walking westward on the Camino for more than five weeks now, and I’m not ready to contemplate the end. Most do this last leg…
October 10thLeon to San Martin del Camino Depending on which book you consult, we either have another 309 or 312 kilometers to reach Santiago de Compostela. It’s 192 vs 194 miles, and this minor discrepancy in distance is comically ubiquitous on the Camino. Whether you are consulting the books, the apps, the official signs, or…
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