May 9, 2025, Arca

Tomorrow is my last day of my walk. Of the 485 miles when I started on April 20, 2023, at 6:53 a.m., I have 12 miles left until I reach Santiago de Compostela.

When I came back to restart my walk on April 19th of this year, I was looking to just get it over with and change the narrative of my first walk, which ended up being my injury. I am happy to say that my fall is no longer the main part of this story, but just a chapter. Soon I will walk into the plaza in front of the cathedral in Santiago. That and all the little Camino interactions leading up to that day are the story of this undertaking. .

I am not an athlete, so I know that anyone willing to put one foot in front of the other can accomplish this same task. I have seen all sorts of people with different capabilities walking on the Camino. The Camino will teach you something, but the challenge is that we don’t know what it will teach each of us.

First sign pointing way out of St Jean

My first photographed sign of distance, almost 100 km into walking

Yesterday’s last picture of a distance marker, 27 km.

The mountains behind me aren’t even the farthest ones back I crossed.