Summer 2024: Lightening Your Load
The Summer 2024 issue of La Concha, a magazine published by American Pilgrims on the Camino with news, pilgrim stories, poetry, and more on the theme of “Lightening Your Load.”
Read MoreLetter from the Chair – Summer 2024
Summer 2024 letter from American Pilgrims on the Camino Board Chair Joe Curro.
Read MoreWhat I Left Behind
Carrying an immense load of grief and anger after her mother’s death, a pilgrim walks the Camino with a 1.6-pound rock painted by her niece in memory of her mother. When she finds the perfect spot to finally set down the rock, she feels lighter than she has in months.
Read MoreThe Heaviest Things, Objects, Items & Stuff
Sitting on the side of the trail nursing her blisters and inflamed calves caused by an overburdened backpack, a woman meets a Camino angel who offers her a vital insight that changes her pilgrimage and ultimately her path in life.
Read MoreFilm Review: Camino
Hany Farag reviews “Camino,” a Danish film about an estranged father and daughter on pilgrimage together to fulfill the dying wish of their wife and mother.
Read MoreThe Left-Behind Clothing
In this poem, Lawrence Jones muses about some discarded attire spotted along the way and the cautionary tale it may offer fellow pilgrims.
Read MoreLightening the Camino with Song
When the road gets weary, songleader Tom Friesen finds there’s nothing like belting out a good tune to lift your spirits and lighten your load. And nothing creates Camino community quite like an albergue singalong.
Read MoreThe Downside of Lightening Your Load on the Camino
More and more, pilgrims are lightening their load by discarding worn-out boots, trash, and even human waste on the trail. A new tradition encourages pilgrims to pick up just one item of litter each day of their pilgrimage, to help lighten the load of trash on the Camino.
Read MoreThe Camino Means Freedom
Miserable, burned out, and on the verge of breakdown from the stresses of running a small business, a husband and wife watch the movie The Way and are compelled to sell their business and set out on the Camino to reclaim their life.
Read MoreLightening Your Load: A Photo Collection
A collection of photos that consider this issue’s theme, “Lightening Your Load,” from various perspectives.
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