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The Walk of a Lifetime: 500 Miles on the Camino de Santiago
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About The Walk Of A Lifetime: 500 Miles On The Camino De
Product Description For two decades, Russ Eanes dreamed of walking 500 miles of the Camino de Santiago. At age 61, not old enough to retire, but old enough to know that it was time to make a change, he left his job as a publisher and embarking on a year of discovery, realized that decades' old dream. Review The next time you hear someone announces the final demise of God or Christianity or religion - take your pick - recommend they take a walk on the Camino de Santiago. If they can't do that for some reason, then give them this wonderful book. --Arthur Boers, author of The Way is Made by Walking Books on the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela are many, but few capture the richness of the experience as well as Russ Eanes' The Walk of a Lifetime. It merits a slow reading so that it's spiritual and human truths might be deeply savored. Russ shares not just details of his walk along the Camino de Santiago in Spain, but the grace that carried him forward and left its mark on his heart forever. I am grateful for the telling of his pilgrim story for it is the story of many. --Kevin Codd, author of To the Field of Stars: A Pilgrim's Journey to Santiago de Compostela. Towards the end of Walk of a Lifetime Russ Eanes describes about his motivation to write this book. Many others have experienced the same strong desire to relate their experiences and to tell others about the Camino de Santiago. What sets The Walk of a Lifetime apart from the many hundreds of other Camino books is the clarity of the writing, the vivid descriptions and the author's sheer sincerity which shines through as he narrates his journey along the Camino Francés. I enjoyed reading this book. You will too. --Johnnie Walker, author of It's About Time: A Call to the Camino de Santiago and over a dozen other pilgrim guides. "Russ Eanes has created a lovely travelogue that is blessedly bathed in his prayerful, positive and cheerful outlook. The Walk of a Lifetime reminds us all that the path may at first seem to be an ordeal of obstacles and challenges, but if you're open to it, it becomes a transformative experience, filled with friendships and laughter and joy. It was great fun to read Russ's memories, and hear in them a call to be back out on the trail again, meeting people like Russ who bring their joy to each footstep." --Sandy Brown, Pilgrim writer and guide There is no shortage these days of Camino memoirs. So many pilgrims seeking to translate their Camino journeys to the page might inspire the cynic in us to wonder whether the market is simply too flooded with such accounts to fully appreciate them any longer. Russ Eanes has lovingly quieted that cynical voice. Reading his book was like getting to walk the Camino all over again. As I plan my own return to the Camino this year, reading Eanes' account of the villages and their lessons gave me butterflies as I begin to anticipate my own journey... Some Camino memoirs make you wish that you had had the opportunity to walk alongside the author. Eanes' is one of those. And yet he does invite us to walk alongside him on his journey, sharing with us the scenery as well as his innermost thoughts and struggles. Walking with him was an absolute delight. I found myself echoing his words as I closed the book, "It's a great day to be alive." Roni Jackson-Kerr, for the March 2020 "La Concha" Newsletter of the American Pilgrims on the Camino From the Back Cover Trekking 500 miles on the ancient Camino de Santiago was not just an item for Russ Eanes to check off his bucket list. It was a journey he had dreamed of taking for decades. At age 61, with his children grown, he was too young to retire but wise enough to know that he needed to reorient the hurried pace of his life. He left his work and took a sabbatical to "reset" himself, and the first step was to head to the Camino. With everything he needed in a 16-pound pack and, equipped with a set of se
