Thoughts about the Camino Portuguese
Why go on Pilgrimage on Camino de Santiago? Each time we trek out the door onto another pathway or decide to undertake a Camino the same questions arise. Why? Why hike the Camino? Why hike another Camino? So here is my best shot at an answer. In 2016, for our first Camino – the Camino Frances – we undertook the pilgrimage for a number of reasons. We both needed a change from the routine of our lives, whether from having spent too much time at our desks, or having submitted too many school reports, or because things just didn’t seem to be going as planned. Call it a midlife crisis (though I’m not sure it was that extreme), but we both – for different reasons – where at a point in our lives where we felt that things were not what we had hoped, that life was rushing past faster and faster, that we were still young enough to enjoy the world and see new cultures and experience new things, and that there was no time like the present to change the direc