Conversations on El Camino

My time with OTGI in Pamplona, Colombia has been packed. Moto rides up the mountain to inspect a transition house for caminantes, volunteer family dinners, more mobile aid trips up and down the mountain with sandwiches & eggs and rides for walkers (and Jess getting a little queasy and dehydrated on the winding mountain roads).…

I wake up to the sound of cars and trucks roaring by, lying on a stiff mattress with a picky wool blanket making my back sweat. But I only hear the rain on the roof tiles; I don't feel it. My mattress doesn't hold the memories of thousands of hikers before me, and my feet…

SO MUCH has transpired in the last five days of September. But first, some introductions. Jess and Bethani at an overlook of Pamplona My friend Bethani and I met at summer camp fifteen years ago, where we bonded over hauling tipi poles down a wooded hillside without losing limbs or gaining concussions. Since that time,…