Pilgrimages we've walked

Since spring 2003 we have walked several pilgrimages, both alone and together. This page introduces you to what I have written about our pilgrimages.

Many go on a pilgrimage in a car, plane, or train, while others go on a bicycle on foot. We are the latter type of pilgrims, those who go on foot like the pilgrims in the middle ages.

It is important to realize that the pilgrim's destination is just as much into his or her heart, soul, mind, body, and spirit as it is to a place. In fact this is the real goal of any pilgrimage: to gain knowledge of and feeling for oneself and everything around. The nominal city or shrine destination is only a convenient goal to keep one walking, experiencing, listening, thinking, and feeling, to keep one receiving the grace and gifts that pour into one when s/he walks with an open heart, mind, soul, and spirit.

Our pilgrimages

This map illustrates the pilgrimages we have walked. You can read what we have written here about each of the routes by clicking on that route in the map or on the list below the map.

Our pilgrimage walks.
Click on a route to read more about it.
(I scanned this map from the Spanish pilgrim's credential.)

You can go to several pilgrimage topics by clicking on them below or on the menu on the left of most pages. You can also go the pilgrimage routes by clicking on them in the map.

• 1. Camino de Santiago - We walked this route separately in spring of 2003. I walked only from Roncesvalles on the Spanish border and Petra all the way from Constance, Germany. We walked parts of it together in fall 2003 and then again in summer 2004 from Santiago back toward Europe.
• 2. Via de la Plata - we walked this route together in spring of 2005. I have never written anything about it on this site. I began but never finished it. In the future?
• 3. Rome pilgrimage - We walked this route in three phases between August 2006 and February 2007.
• Workshops on pilgrimage.
• Slide shows on the pilgrimage
• Walking Life: Meditations on the Pilgrimage of Life is a book of meditations on life's pilgrimage illustrated with photos from our pilgrimage walks.

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