Walking the Camino de Santiago
This part of the Meseta is flat as flat can be. Although I took many photos in this stretch, they have a sort of monotony about them. They all basically look like the photo I posted the other day. It is a beautiful desolation when you’re there, but twenty photos of it would get old pretty quick. So here’s something […]
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In front of the Monasterio de San Zoilo stand a series of small monuments, each of which depicts the coat of arms of the Spanish provinces through which the northern Camino routes run. For a look at the complete set, check out the images from our 2016 Camino. For today, however, I’m concentrating on the Asturias monument. I’ve never been […]
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Once again, I’ve been noodling about going on Camino. The Camino has been calling to me. First quietly but persistently, and now louder and insistently. Previously, we’ve walked the Camino Francés, starting in various places: Roncesvalles in 2013 (León for Francine), Saint Jean Pied de Port in 2016, and O Cebreiro in 2018. The Camino Francés Obviously, there are a […]
» Read moreWelcome, fellow pilgrim! This site recounts our pilgrimages on the Way of Saint James – the Camino de Santiago – as well as the planning and training leading up to our pilgrimages. For our first pilgrimage, in April and May of 2013 we walked the route known as the Camino Francés. Thom’s trek was some 780km from Roncesvalles in the […]
» Read moreThe Camino de Santiago is a network of ancient pilgrimage routes across Europe, ending in the city of Santiago de Compostella in Galicia, Spain, where the Apostle Saint James (Santiago) is entombed. For over a thousand years, pilgrims have walked to this shrine to pray before the relics of the great saint. The most popular route through Spain runs about […]
» Read moreSeries 1: 2016 Once I’d gotten all of my Camino photos up on my Flickr page, I began to search for ways to internalize and come to grips with our 2016 Camino. Beginning on 06 July 2016, I began posting a photo a day with brief explanations and occasional maps. I tried not to post the boring ones (though your […]
» Read moreA Man with his café con leche(photo by Callie Starks) Thom Thom is a Catholic convert, an Oblate of the Order of Saint Benedict, and a writer. He has a great love of the sacred liturgy, history, and his beautiful bride (though not necessarily in that order). In addition to his day job as policy editor for a large tech […]
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