Brothers on the Camino

Pope John Paul II in Santiago de Compostela in 1989. Santiago de Compostela has been a place of pilgrimage for many … including Pope John P...

It´s hard to beleive how far we have come. We plan on doing 20k tomorrow and Friday, and whatever is left on Saturday (11k I think). Then we...

To those of you who thought Sarria is 100 km away, it is actually 110. But we´re still doing well. We really trucked it today and yesterday....

An interesting tidbit … Marcus Samuel, the founder of Shell, adopted the Scallop Shell logo in 1904. It appears there are two reasons for t...

Earlier today, Seamus, Ian and Noah entered into the Spanish region of Galicia. Curiously, Galicia has Celtic roots. This region actually e...

Quite the bus day. I think we covered about 120 km. Once we got to Sarria we had to just use out man-stinct to get on the Camino (and a litt...

... you can smell them ALL! We took a bus from Astorga to Ponferrada, and now we are going to take one to Lugo, and then take one to Sarria....

The boys seem anxious to arrive at the 100 km mark. The rule is that if you walk the last 100 km (or, 62 miles) of the Camino, you are enti...

New shoes = ugly but very nice to finally have and World Cup Refs = LAME Ian got in a little later than I was thinking, but we connected jus...

Well...here we are in Astorga. We are probably going to catch a bus to the 100 km. mark tomorrow, so we have some time in Santiago. I am rea...

A statue of Saint James the Pilgrim from the Sanctuary at Our Lady of the Atonement in San Antonio. The boys made it to a town called San M...

So, I´m hanging out in Madrid at the moment. I noticed thatsomeone had paid for time on one of the computer in the airport and not used all ...

(John the Baptist is often portrayed using a Scallop Shell to baptize Christ.) Gosh! I don't think St. John the Baptist would be impres...

I love how things just don´t quite translate sometimes. Fortunately, we got the idea. This is from a few days ago ... that's after abou...

We are here in Leon for our second day. There is nothing to do in the morning but walk around ... the idea was to rest! haha. It's ok, w...