Camino de Santiago 2016 - A Healing Pilgrimage

These are thoughts, prayers, and observations during my Camino de Santiago pilgrimage from May-June 2016. I flew into Paris, visited a few places there to start my pilgrimage, continued to Lourdes by train for some days of healing and reconciliation, and began walking May 18. With a few days of rest thrown in to allow for my blisters to heal, I arrived in Santiago de Compostela on June 24.

For the blog posts leading up to the Camino, visit Preparing for Camino de Santiago 2016 - A Healing Pilgrimage

On the Camino

• May 12 - At the Foot of the Cross
• May 13 - Chartres Labyrinth & the St Jacques Tower
• May 14 - God is Still Painting
• May 15 - Tempered by Fire
• May 16 - Healing and Sickness
• May 17 - Healing and Trust
• May 18 - Zero to 45.39 (first day walking)
• May 19 - Food for Thought
• May 21 - Basquing in the Hills of Life
• May 22 - Angel Messenger and the Comfort of Christ (Fear over the Pyrenees)
• May 23 - When God Comes Tapping on Your Shoulder
• May 24 - Slowly I Learn, Step by Step
• May 25 - Alto del Perdon
• May 26 - May the Rain Fall Softly on Your Fields
• May 27 - Walking Apart, Walking Together
• May 28 - Healing is a Camino
• May 29 - The Healing Water of Lourdes
• May 30 - Empty Nests
• May 31 - When Every Step is a Thank You
• June 1 - The Healer Asking for Healing, Again
• June 2 - Siesta
• June 3 - I Still Don't Know Why She Cried
• June 4 - Every Step a Chance to Say Thank You
• June 5 - Changing Landscape
• June 6 - Side by Side
• June 7 - I Am
• June 8 - The Silence Between the Notes
• June 9 - Wandering in a Straight Line 
• June 11 - Trusting the Process, Trusting Life
• June 12 - Leggo My Ego
• June 13 - Making Something Out of Nothing
• June 14 - The Road to Calvary
• June 15 - Neither a Sheep or a Rainbow See
• June 16 - Progress
• June 17 - Onward and Upward
• June 18 - Down to Earth
• June 19 - Every Step You Take
• June 20 - Judgment Day
• June 21 - Counting
• June 22 - For the Beauty of the Earth
• June 23 - for this most amazing day

After the Camino

• July 4 - Thank You For Today and Tomorrow, Tonight

Videos that I made during the Camino

• Procession of Lights at Lourdes
• Cycling Shepherd
• Flowers on a Healing Pilgrimage
• Reunion in Spain (Having Fun while resting so that my blisters could heal)
• Camino Cows of Fonfria (or "How I almost got gored")
• Botafumeiro of June 24, 2016
• The Camino Pilgrim (or "Walking all those kilometers")

Other links regarding the Camino

• Practical Questions that I've been asked by those who might walk the Camino
• You might be a pilgrim if...