Hey all!
Last month I walked the Camino Francés, and for each of the 32 days I was there I wrote an article and posted it online as a blog. The blogs covered my musings and thoughts, in relationship to real life and also a bit of politics. It was part of a project for myself as I walked. I am agnostic and wanted to dissect my feelings about that too.
These blogs don't offer specific advice; instead they offer an untraditional glimpse into the mental aspect of this incredible experience.
If any of that sounds interesting, here's the link to the thread of blogs, all 32 of them: https://andrewsun.substack.com/t/camino-de-santiago. And if these are interesting, please feel free to subscribe to my larger substack, where I post more generally about travel + politics: https://andrewsun.substack.com/.
A preview, if you're interested:
"Those who hear that I walked the Camino will probably be impressed for the wrong reasons — the sheer distance I walked, the nerve to do so in a foreign country as a 19-year-old, alone. It just sounds impressive. In real life conversation, I don’t think I would correct them - it feels weird to tell someone they’re wrong about a compliment.
Here, however, I feel completely comfortable sharing that these reactions are appreciated but miss the larger point. The distance never really mattered beyond the time and opportunity it created to be in community. No one ever really cared that I was 19 years old, and I stopped caring too.
And I was never alone.
I was never alone.
The collective experience of the Camino now constitutes one of those experiences so incredible and eye-opening and transformational that I would find it impossible to describe it in words if someone were to simply ask me, 'How was it?'"
For all those considering walking, give this blog a try!
Last month I walked the Camino Francés, and for each of the 32 days I was there I wrote an article and posted it online as a blog. The blogs covered my musings and thoughts, in relationship to real life and also a bit of politics. It was part of a project for myself as I walked. I am agnostic and wanted to dissect my feelings about that too.
These blogs don't offer specific advice; instead they offer an untraditional glimpse into the mental aspect of this incredible experience.
If any of that sounds interesting, here's the link to the thread of blogs, all 32 of them: https://andrewsun.substack.com/t/camino-de-santiago. And if these are interesting, please feel free to subscribe to my larger substack, where I post more generally about travel + politics: https://andrewsun.substack.com/.
A preview, if you're interested:
"Those who hear that I walked the Camino will probably be impressed for the wrong reasons — the sheer distance I walked, the nerve to do so in a foreign country as a 19-year-old, alone. It just sounds impressive. In real life conversation, I don’t think I would correct them - it feels weird to tell someone they’re wrong about a compliment.
Here, however, I feel completely comfortable sharing that these reactions are appreciated but miss the larger point. The distance never really mattered beyond the time and opportunity it created to be in community. No one ever really cared that I was 19 years old, and I stopped caring too.
And I was never alone.
I was never alone.
The collective experience of the Camino now constitutes one of those experiences so incredible and eye-opening and transformational that I would find it impossible to describe it in words if someone were to simply ask me, 'How was it?'"
For all those considering walking, give this blog a try!
