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If you are looking for your next big trip and you love the spiritual practice of pilgrimage, then you are going to love this episode of the podcast. But it’s not about the Camino, per se. It’s Camino-adjacent, but about something that, turns out, is totally different.

Chris from episode 142 is back! It feels like the blink of an eye since I talked with Chris the last time, but in the interim, he has completed the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage in Japan, which is no small thing.

So we are going to be taking a look at the similarities and differences between the Camino and the Kumano Kodo through the lens of pilgrimage.

Here is some information about this pilgrimage:

https://www.kumano-travel.com/en

https://www.tb-kumano.jp/en/kumano-kodo/

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If you haven’t yet walked the Camino because you think you can’t do it because of an illness, my guest today is about to turn that idea on its head.

Today I am talking with Phil, who walked the Camino after recovering from a serious illness. And, as many of us have done, he walked to honor a family member and make a statement about how he wants to live his life going forward.

Phil also shows us that it’s not so much that the Camino provides, as the popular saying goes, but that the Camino teaches us. He discovered that while problems on the Camino seem to be inevitable, they don’t need to be debilitating. And actually, some of the problems we anticipate never even show up.

If you are just getting started with your planning for the Camino, you may want to hop back to season one, episode one. That's where the journey begins.

And if you'd like something to get you started, grab your copy of my FREE Camino Planning Roadmap.

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Will I find a place to sleep? Will I find food? Will it rain the entire time? These are questions all pilgrims ask when getting ready to walk the Camino, but none more so than the winter pilgrim.

Imagine walking the Camino when most services are closed, when only 75 of the 450+ albergues on the Francés route keep their doors open for the winter. Imagine walking into a town after a long day out in the cold and discovering the one albergue you thought would be open isn’t.

In this episode we are talking with Chris, who walked the Camino Francés in the winter. But believe it or not, that is even the most interesting part of his story. What drew me in was why Chris walked, and that he is the father of Savannah, who you met in the last episode.

To find open albergues on the Camino Francés in the winter: http://winterpilgrim.com/

The pilgrimage in Japan Chris talks about is called the Kumano Kodo. Learn more here: https://www.tb-kumano.jp/en/kumano-kodo/

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