The Camino del Norte (Camino de la Costa), starting in Irún, is 833 kilometers from Irún traveling through San Sebastián, Bilbao, Santander, and Gijón to Santiago de Compostela. An option popular with pilgrims hiking the Norte is to leave the traditional route and follow the Primitivo route through Oviedo and over the mountains, meeting the Camino Francés at Melide.

Each day lists start and endpoints, the distance walked (in kilometers), the approximate time it took to walk that distance, notes about the route, a log of that day’s adventures, people I met and fun we had, and some indication of costs, weather, and trail conditions.

The Vía de la Plata (Silver Way), starting in Sevilla (Seville), is 1000 kilometers from Sevilla traveling through Mérida, Cáceres and Salamanca to Zamora then via one of several variants to Santiago de Compostela. From Zamora the route continues directly northward to join the Camino Francés at Astorga or via Puebla de Sanabria on the Camino Sanabrés.
The Camino Sanabrés, also known as the Vía de la Plata Ourense option or the Camino Meridional, leads directly to Santiago bypassing the Camino Francés, branching from the VDLP at the village of Granja de Moreruela then northwest through Puebla de Sanabria to Santiago.

Each day in this route report lists start and endpoints, the distance walked (in kilometers), the time taken to walk that distance, notes about the route, a log of that day’s adventure, and costs. Also included is a screengrab of my GPS record for that day, taken from my smartphone app Strava. Please note that the Strava app only logged moving time between the start and endpoints of the day, and did not include lunch, coffee breaks, or my talks with people along the way. In contrast, my approximate record of the time it took to complete each day’s journey was always longer. Also included, when available, is a link to each day’s slideshow that has been uploaded to Facebook.

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An introspective global journey to awareness and self-discovery catalyzed by 20 summer days walking the Camino de Santiago, Su Camino... is one American baby boomer's travelogue come preparation handbook full of Camino anecdotes and advice for the contemporary walker of "The Way."

Steeped in world travels to the far corners of the world over the last two decades, Su Camino... is a layered mélange of travelogue, full of anecdotes from the trail; musings on my own journey of the spirit; and preparation handbook with great resources for any pilgrim, thru-hiker, or adventurer.

Wherever we may roam, there is adventure, there is spirit, and there is discovery.

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RETIRED and enjoying another visit to the Lake District of northern England, American Michael Seltzer meets beautiful Austrian Elisabeth but loses her to a group of apparent evildoers. Compelled to rescue her from her kidnappers, Michael calls upon the local police force and his own devices to solve the mystery surrounding Elisabeth’s sudden disappearance.

CAUGHT between obligation and mortal danger, Elisabeth finds herself in the hands of California mobsters who have tracked her to England despite her efforts to elude them on an international scale. Just the night before, she had come across the only man, an American, she might trust to help her out of this perilous entanglement.

STYMIED but persistent, powerful West Coast crime boss Walter Breem and his henchmen follow Elisabeth to England to get from her what Breem desires most—access to a collection worth millions of dollars. That collection remains the one thing Breem has sought for decades, and he is completely obsessed with making it his own—at all costs.