Super Camino and Spain travel guide author and pilgrim, Johnniewalker Santiago, has just published a new walking guide to the Camino Francés. You can download it here! If you have any issues with the Facebook link, let me know and I can send you the PDF.
Category: Camino Frances
Winner!
Buen Camino! Tips From a WINTER Pilgrim is the 2022 American Writing Awards Winner in Travel! It’s available on Amazon, Amazon Kindle, and by special order at your favorite independent bookstore.
New Camino Book!
Do you fancy a quieter, more contemplative walk to Santiago de Compostela? More calming, embracing the solitude, and using your skills. Consider walking in winter then.
The Way, the Pilgrimage in Winter
One of my favorite Camino authors is a woman who was sent by the New York Hispanic Society at the beginning of the 20th century to write about Spain to encourage Americans to go there. She worked mostly during WWI and her personal goal was to find the inspiration for medieval Spanish church design, but […]
New Camino Podcasts!
Here are links to some of the recent podcasts I’ve done to get the word out about my Camino books – Buen Camino! Tips from an American Pilgrim, and If You Stand Here: A Pilgrim’s Tour of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. One book to get you safely to Santiago, the other to show […]
New on Redbubble!
The Camino de Santiago collection has just been updated to include photos from Advent 2021. Check it out!
Let’s go back to the Camino!
Both books are available in My Books or your local Amazon.
Guest on a New Travel Podcast!
It was a delight to speak with award-winning Forbes travel writer Lea Lane about the Camino de Santiago. Her book, Places I Remember, will take you on a trip around the world. Very highly recommended. You can listen to the podcast anywhere you get your podcasts. The link to our chat is here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/places-i-remember-travel-talk-with-lea-lane/id1554088083
How Best to Train to Walk the Camino – it’s not just about walking
There’s a wonderful book called “To Walk Far, Carry Less.” The author talks about what you should not bring with you if you are setting out on a long hike. He agrees with a man he meets early on in the book, who tells him the exhaustion and aches he was experiencing were because he […]
A Holy Year Story – 2010
I remember so clearly thinking to myself, “Nothing will disturb me. Nothing will frighten me.” Then I got lost on my way out of town.