The Camino de Santiago: A Pilgrimage Trek with Lydia B. Smith and Kurt Koontz

MP3 Download Over a period of thirteen hundred years, more than two million people have ventured down the sacred path of the Camino de Santiago. The northern route of this pilgrimage trek starts in the Pyrenees in France and takes pilgrims 500 miles to the west of Spain. Koontz describes the auberges (hostels) where one might be sleeping in a room with 200 people and sharing a bunk bed. When somebody moves in their sleep they shake the whole bed. Of course, with so many people there are bound to be those who snore. It’s not something most of us are used to and could be described as a bad situation because you wake up tired. He says, “If you can let go and leave some of those things behind and be appreciative of the bed and the fact that you have a place to stay with shelter, you wake up well rested.” Smith reminds us of the saying, “A tourist demands; a pilgrim is grateful.” The Camino is said to really put you into the here and now, and may help to release a litany of judgments. (host