HeyJaredThe Camino Chronicles
Sharing my stories about the Camino to Santiago de Compostela.
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What Drives the Camino Walker? From Devotion to Addiction (opens the original)
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As many pilgrims as there are, as many reasons for walking the Camino there are. However, when arriving in Santiago and obtaining your Compostela you have to indicate your reason for walking. To keep things manageable the pilgrim’s office asks for your reason for walking and drills it down to three possible reason. When I walked my first Camino in 2013 those reasons were Religious, Spiritual or Sports. In the case of the Spiritual or Religious reasons you would receive a nicely decorated Compost
The Last Square: Arriving in Santiago de Compostela (opens the original)
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Arriving in a city always starts the same way: you enter through the modern outskirts. Santiago is no different. After walking a few hundred kilometres, the city starts with many uninspiring buildings, wide roads, and the constant hum of traffic. The environment feels wrong after days of walking through the countryside. It takes a while, but eventually I spot what look like old church spires ahead, rising above the rooftops. I wonder if that might be the cathedral. Getting closer, the towers bec
The Pilgrim’s Rhythm (opens the original)
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It’s 5 am when I wake up from a rumble in the room. It is an elderly Japanese pilgrim on the other side of the room who is awake and collecting his things to get going. Rustling of plastic bags, interspersed with sounds that seem like jars and pans, and meanwhile waving around with his headlamp, he is slowly collecting his belongings. Somehow he doesn’t seem to be bothered by the fact that there are six more people in the room who are hoping to continue sleeping at this hour. Finally after 40 mi
The Same Path, yet I Am a different Pilgrim (opens the original)
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The descent from El Acebo to Molinaseca is steep and rocky. It requires undivided attention while walking. It barely allows for opportunities to look around and enjoy the views. Almost two hours after leaving El Acebo I enter Molinaseca by crossing the river over a medieval bridge. On the other side at the foot of the bridge are two terraces. At first I walk around the most crowded one to look for an open spot. It’s not there. The other one has plenty of empty seats. It makes me even wonder if t
The Camino Doesn’t Give You What You Want, It Gives You What You Need (opens the original)
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When checking in at the beautiful albergue Palacio de Sansol, Christina, the hospitalera handed me a slip of paper. She asked me to write something on it for a fellow pilgrim as a message about the Camino. I thought about it for a moment and remembered a quote I had been thinking about for a while on this Camino. So I wrote: “The Camino doesn’t give you what you want, instead it gives you what you need.” That night at the communal dinner each one of us was handed a paper with a message that one
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