Coincidence?
It has been some time since I published anything to this blog. It has become rather random and eclectic and something about that bothers me, probably it reminds me of how I too have become seemingly quite random and eclectic... but that is another story. The story I want to tell today is true, it is the true story of today. To set the stage, you will need a little bit of background. At this time in my life I am attempting (frustratingly slowly at the moment) to write my Master's thesis. My topic is landscape and pilgrimage. In September and October of 2011, I walked for 37 days covering a distance of nearly 900km from St. Jean Pied-de-Port, France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The distance between these two places is more commonly referred to as the Camino de Santiago , a Medieval, Catholic pilgrimage. What I am doing with this is writing an autoethnography exploring how the landscapes of the pilgrimage impact the experiences of the pilgrim, in this case, myself. An autoeth