👣 Noire Pilgrim: Celebrate Cute Curly Cork
Quercus suber or cork oak trees grow along the camino. They are an ancient source of wine bottle stoppers. Still used today, cork is also used for flooring, ball … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
👣 Noire Pilgrim: Mérida
Aqueducto los Milagros at sunrise in Merida, Spain
The Paradox
My plan was to walk the camino alone. It is nice to be alone with yourself and your thoughts. … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
👣 Noire Pilgrim: All I Want
The moon at sunrise
The Story Continues
So far, I have revealed only bits of information about how I fell for this word, camino, because it is just … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
👣 Noire Pilgrim: Cordoba
The camino Mozárabe joins the camino de la Plata on the next leg of my journey to Santiago de Compostela. The two caminos meet at the city of Merida. … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
👣 Noire Pilgrim: Stranger on Earth
Wanderer, pilgrim, and sometimes, stranger. I am mining data from my experiences on the camino for… what? My journey is a long one, so I have plenty of time … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
👣 Noire Pilgrim: Invisible to the World
Is a black woman invisible to the world? If you don’t see color what do you see?
A Sign Post
Along the pilgrim path, I stopped at an albergue … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
👣 Noire Pilgrim: Casa de America
An American on the camino
A Casa de America or America’s House in Spain… on the camino? I never heard about it until I arrived in a small town … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
👣 Noire Pilgrim: A Bad Day is A Bad Day
But it’s not the end of the world.
One bad day or two. The world -and I – are having quite a few. I have been presented with difficult … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
👣 Noire Pilgrim: Stop for A Coffee
Every morning I long to hold you……I need you, I want you, I have to have you……your warmth, your smell, your taste……ohhh coffee, I love you.
Yes, coffee is … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
👣 Noire Pilgrim: I’m Not There Yet – Places
Where am I?
I am exactly where I need to be.
There are, of course, an infinite number of places where one is not, yet only one place where … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
👣 Noire Pilgrim: Granada
Why am I walking here? I am a pilgrim on the Way, of course. I view this walk and a brief stop in Granada as a balancing of my … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
👣 Noire Pilgrim: I’m Not There Yet – The Albergue
There are so many worlds and I have not yet conquered even one.
— Alexander The Great
A place to stay
Will I find an albergue or any other place … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞