Why do people say the Camino provides?   I’m happy to share another response to this question written by a Polish American peregrina Pauline.  She took the Camino by storm in June and captured the attention of many following her blog Pauline Flew Away: The musings of an amusing twenty-one year old traveling blonde.

Pauline shares her thoughts on her six month anniversary of her Camino below.

Camino Reflections by Pauline of PaulineFlewAway

I was honored when Laurie, of The Camino Provides, asked me to write about what “the Camino provides” meant to me.

In all honesty, I put this task off for a long time. I didn’t believe that I could actually put pen to paper and articulate how much the Camino provided me. But, when I sat down to think about it, and reflected on my life in the half year since the Camino, I knew that I finally had the answer.

It has been exactly six months since I started my Camino. Notice, I anchor to my start date, because I don’t believe that my Camino has ever really stopped.

I began on June 1st, 2015. My Camino took me from Burgos to Santiago de Compostela in 18 days. In those 18 days, I walked and I talked, I laughed and I sobbed.

I sweated through the Meseta, and shivered in the rain in Galicia. I drank too much red wine, and ate too many Spanish tortillas. Continue reading →