Category Archives: Travel
Can you be homesick for a place that was never your home?
The other day at the grocery store I bought a mango. I didn’t really think much of it, other than mangoes are my favorite food and I rarely, if ever, […]
Fried jacks and watermelon juice
Spring 2013 I originally went to Belize to visit Michael, my Californian friend who I had met three years previously on a pub crawl in Buenos Aires. We spent a […]
Stranded at the drive-in [military checkpoint]
April 2013 It is hot. Beyond hot. I am sweating through my sheer tank top and just ripped my jean shorts on the floor of the bus. Yes, the floor […]
The best souvenir is the one you can’t share
There is a group of buskers playing an upbeat melody while tourists stand by to listen. The trumpet player’s elastic cheeks puff out like balloons. A teenage girl wearing a […]
Never alone
Paca was absolutely right. The hardest thing about the Camino is letting it go. When I got to Valencia, I felt numb. It was disturbing to me how badly I […]
It’s the end of the world as we know it
I watch Galicia blow past me outside the window at 300 kilometers per hour. I feel sick; I’ve been walking at a mere 5kph for more than five weeks. The […]
Santiago de Compostela
Yesterday felt like an absolutely normal day of walking. We woke up and packed our bags. We had coffee and toast at a cafe. We walked. I peed behind a […]
Once a pilgrim, always a pilgrim
It’s very difficult to describe the Camino to people who have not walked it, but here I am, trying to put words to something that is next to impossible to […]
In attempt to describe my friends…
I’ve been avoiding this entry for awhile now, because it’s the most important of all. It’s very difficult to describe my friends on the Camino, but I’m going to try. […]