EL CAMINO

Camino de Santiago

A few Caminos de Santiago under my belt — France, Portugal, Spain. Some roads you walk once; this one I kept coming back to. These are random pictures and videos from the road, dug out of ten years of archives a few at a time.

On the Camino de Santiago — Somewhere on the road.

Juan Parra on the trail, Camino Francés 2021 — On the road · Camino Francés, 2021.

Rain day. You walk anyway.

A pilgrim's foot after the miles — The toll. Every pilgrim pays it.

Pilgrim credential and scallop shell, Camino Portugués 2026 — The credential and the shell · Portugués, 2026.

Watch showing 33,528 steps and 15.9 miles — 15.9 miles by 1:21 PM. Just a Tuesday out there.

Mid-walk, mid-thought.

Laundry hanging at an albergue — Albergue laundry. The other pilgrim ritual.

Variante Espiritual waymarker — The Spiritual Variant — the stretch I keep coming back to.

Green backpack, scallop shell and credencial resting before a stone church — Everything I own, on my back.

White chapel on a rocky point by the sea — A chapel where the land runs out.

Boardwalk plaque reading Bom Caminho in six languages — Bom Caminho — the road wishes you well in six languages.

Boat sculpture made of recycled plastic at Vila Chã — Vila Chã — a boat built from what the sea gave back.

Large yellow ESPOSENDE letters by the sea — Esposende, early.

A pause, mid-road.

Bocadillo sandwich and a mug of beer on a café table — The pilgrim's menu.

Mural of a painter and a cat on a building wall — Somebody's whole wall, given to art.

Large blue PONTEVEDRA letters — Pontevedra.

Camino waymarker reading Km 7,664 — 7.664 kilometers to go.

Two Galicia waymarkers at a fork in the road — Two ways to arrive. Pick one and walk.

Santiago de Compostela train station at night — And then the train home.

Fishing harbor full of boats — The harbor at Muxía.

Stone wall inscribed Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Barca — Muxía — the Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Boat.

Split rock monument by the sea with a Camino waymarker — Muxía — where the road meets the end of the world.

Sunset over a rocky coast — End of the world, end of the day.

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