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“Everyone walks their own Camino.” That’s what is always said. Trust it.
The Camino Santiago de Compostela is a 500-mile pilgrimage route across northern Spain from St. Jean Pied de Port, in southern France, to Santiago de Compostela, in northwestern Spain.
Thinking it the best option, I walked the Camino in September and October of 2013 — none of the rain of April/June, not as blistering hot as June/July, or as crowded and hot as August. Many other walkers also thought September/October the best time for walking the Camino.
The young come for adventure, to hook up, and because they’ve just finished a summer course or a summer job and have the time before returning to school or the everyday. The young run ahead, pass you by.
The middle aged, retired, or older pilgrim walk just to walk; to relieve the pressure of an intense life, to think, to meditate, to puzzle out a problem, to make a transition, to absorb the loss of someone close, or to think about and accept the end.
A major focus for me became the people met along the way, the walkers
and the local Spanish. There was also the experience of a different history and culture. One European told an American, “I have a book older than
your country.”
Though the group of walkers I met on the Camino changed everyday their defining characteristic was that they had done what they could in their lives to make this a better world.
The special people you are about to meet were my Camino.
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Neal Spitzer, artist, realist painter of people, paintings, portraits, portrait commissions, limited edition archival prints Poetry in Public Places Neal Spitzer, artist, realist painter of people, paintings, portraits, portrait commissions, limited edition archival prints Poetry in Public Places Neal Spitzer, artist, realist painter of people, paintings, portraits, portrait commissions, limited edition archival prints Poetry in Public Places Neal Spitzer, artist, realist painter of people, paintings, portraits, portrait commissions, limited edition archival prints
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