{"id":3817,"date":"2017-10-23T16:07:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/?p=3817"},"modified":"2023-05-24T17:56:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T17:56:30","slug":"from-our-readers-walking-the-camino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/2017\/10\/23\/from-our-readers-walking-the-camino\/","title":{"rendered":"From Our Readers: Walking &#8220;The Camino&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WM asked our readers: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you take care of yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I walk &#8220;The Camino.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/10\/klee1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3819\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/10\/klee1-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/10\/klee1-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/10\/klee1.jpeg 245w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px\" \/><\/a>I first travelled to Spain in 1978 to study Spanish at the University of Valencia for a semester. Since then I&#8217;ve developed a strong passion for everything about Spain.<\/p>\n<p>A few years before my retirement, I learned about the historic pilgrimage called &#8220;The Way&#8221; or the\u00a0Camino de Santiago.\u00a0 This is a historic 500-mile walk across Northern Spain. Pilgrims have been walking this same route for over 1,000 years.<\/p>\n<p>I read many books and my wife and I collected gear and clothing to prepare for our camino.\u00a0 We started our hike in a small French town in the Pyrenees Mountains, St Jean Pied de Port. We then walked the entire route and arrived in Santiago de Compestela on October 31.<\/p>\n<p>It took us 35 days and we only had one rest day. We averaged 14.4 miles per day. It was a fantastic experience for us.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone\u00a0who\u00a0hikes the Camino\u00a0experiences physical, mental and spiritual aspects of the journey.\u00a0 Attached are two photos.\u00a0 T<\/p>\n<p>We had such an amazing experience, my wife and I are walking the camino again this fall, along with my brother (1980 Wabash graduate) and his wife.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Klee \u201979<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WM asked our readers: How do you take care of yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually? I walk &#8220;The Camino.&#8221; I first travelled to Spain in 1978 to study Spanish at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":3818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-class-notes"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/10\/klee3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3823,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions\/3823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}