Five years on, five things I learned walking the Camino De Santiago

Reflections on a spiritual journey from France across Northwestern Spain

The view walking to Orisson on that first day.

On this day in 2012, I walked, stumbled, then half-ran onto the Praza do Obradoiro stretching beneath the western façade of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Northwestern Spain. I was tired, sweaty, sunburned. It was the…