Camino Primitivo-Day 3 La Doriga to Salas
The best laid plans often go awry. Once again we were being beat down by the heat wave. We ended stopping in Salas, I think it hit almost 80F on some stretches of...
Category: Camino de Santiago-Primitivo Route
Camino Primitivo-Day 2 Escamplero to La Doriga
Our plan was to stop in Cornellana, but we decided to stop in La Doriga since it had become so hot that we were exhausted and figured with the large group headed to Cornellana,...
Camino Primitivo-Day 1 Oviedo to Escamplero
The start of the Camino Primitivo is right from the Cathedral. The plaque above indicates the direction for both the Primitivo and the Norte routes. It reads: In the beginning of the 9th...
The Suffering of The Pilgrim Begins on Day 1 of Travel
Some people are of the belief that to be a true pilgrim you must encounter suffering and discomfort. That aspect of pilgrimage is easy to achieve if it involves traveling from Alaska to Northern...
Camino Pilgrim Stacey Wittig: An Interview With The Author of the Spiritual and Walking Guides
Chance encounters: How I met Stacey Wittig One of the first things that I learned about the Camino de Santiago (The Way of St. James, as it’s known in English) is that you...
The Camino de Santiago Anchorage Chapter Pilgrim Shell Ceremony
The Anchorage Chapter of the American Pilgrims On The Camino held their first shell ceremony on 4/6/17. The first part of the meeting was a quarterly orientation for people interested in getting more information...
Packing for The Camino de Santiago
Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity -Thor Heyerdahl This list was updated on 7/3/17 indicating (in red) what worked and what didn’t work. How much time can one person spend on...
A Pilgrimage on The Camino de Santiago
This May we will return to Spain for a pilgrimage walk on The Camino de Santiago. The Camino de Santiago, also known in English as “The Way of St. James”, is a network...
