“What are you excited about?”

“Well I’m about to leave to walk the Camino de Santiago, a 500 mile pilgrimage thru the Pyrannies to the central coast of Spain. It’s a really ancient pilgrimage that was even walked before the Christian church came along, but is now run by the Franciscan church. I’ll be walking for about 2 months.”

“Are you taking money with you?”

“A little bit, the churches require you to pay a little bit for food and stuff like that.”

“So the whole thing is organized by them?”

“In a way, it’s the last institutionally supported pilgrimage in the world which means each night there is a place to sleep within a church along the route.”

“What inspired you to take this pilgrimage?”

“I don’t even know where it came from. I woke up with this idea of walking a pilgrimage about 3 years ago and somehow this trip grew out of that realization. Doing it this year feels really right. I feel like I’ve come to a place in my practice where I wanna take a moment to reflect upon where I am in my life and really settle down to the nature of who I am and what I’ve grown into. Really be able to process everything I’ve gone thru in the last few years in developing my spiritual practice. All the healing work and journeys that I’ve been on. And really just…walk with it.”

“Is there a definite end goal you have for this trip?”

“I want to embody my experience in opening myself up to Spirit. Learning how to really trust myself and see who I am so that Spirit can come thru more clearly and guide me.”

“Do you have any idea what that would look like?”

“I can’t foresee that. I really don’t know at all. I think there will be long roads, maybe some blisters. But you can only give care to what happens at the end of the day. And then move into the next day. So…there’s a direction, an openness, but not much more than that. I’m walking East…to the land of the Rising Sun.”