Autumn 2025: Connection & Reflection
The Autumn 2025 issue of La Concha, a magazine published by American Pilgrims on the Camino with news, pilgrim stories, poetry, and more on the theme of “Connection & Reflection.”
Read MoreLetter From the Chair – Autumn 2025
Autumn 2025 letter from American Pilgrims on the Camino Board Chair Joe Curro plus a summary of the July 2025 meeting of the American Pilgrims Board of Directors.
Read MoreTouched By God
When a man passes a small church in a mountain village, a woman beckons him to see inside. His experience leaves him feeling more connected to God, himself, and everything.
Read MoreBook Review: The Traveler’s Path
A review of The Traveler’s Path by Douglas J. Brouwer, which explores a question common among pilgrims: “Why are you doing this?” Brouwer extends that question beyond pilgrimage, and applies it to the whole scope of human movement.
Read MoreWalking My Way Through Divorce
When her marriage unravels, Katherine January steps out on Camino, tucking into her backpack a small bundle of nylon cord her ex-husband kept stashed around the house. As she walks, she considers the ways she might use that string to solve problems on Camino, just as she, no longer tethered, must now improvise a new life.
Read MoreTo Be a Traveler
A pilgrim reflects on how the Camino led him to seek foreign experiences as a traveler rather than as a tourist for more enriching encounters.
Read MoreThe Transformative Journey of the Camino
A pilgrim finds the construct of the Camino unfolding in three stages—physical, emotional, and spiritual—as closely mirroring Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs—physiological and safety needs, self-actualization, and transcendence.
Read MoreChapter Happenings – Autumn 2025
An Autumn 2025 compilation of American Pilgrims on the Camino chapter happenings.
Read MoreBook Review: Tales from the Trail
A review of Jackie Saxon’s Tales from the Trail, a humor-infused collection of 53 short essays that offer both pilgrim wisdom and disenchantments, along with a glimpse into the unique challenges the author faced as an African American woman walking the Camino.
Read MoreTo Estella
In this poem, Rebecca Ring writes about escaping on pilgrimage upon retirement from a career as an elementary classroom teacher, only to find herself surrounded by a group of Spanish students on a field trip day on Camino, and a connection she made in one brief exchange with one of the students.
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