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Finding Myself Along the Way: One Man's Journey on the Camino de Santiago
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Product Description As the author, Michael Burnett approached middle age, he wondered if the life he had was what he truly wanted. FINDING MYSELF ALONG THE WAY chronicles the steps he took next to gain perspective; rediscover who he was and whom he wanted to be. Over the course of a few years, he sheds the trappings of his middle-class life. At age 50, he’d reduced his belongings to the bare essentials and veered onto a path less traveled. No longer striving for success as measured by society, he seeks to live a simpler existence and embarks on a journey into the unknown. His story, told with unflinching honesty, is shared as he walks along the Camino de Santiago, a 500-mile pilgrimage in Northern Spain. He shares his struggles, fears, and mistakes he’s made and delves into how a loss at an early age can impact one's life. He also shares the lessons he’s learned, his hopes and dreams, and moments that will make your heart sing in this moving memoir. The Camino comes to life in vivid detail…the natural beauty, the historic monuments…but most of all, as you meet the fellow pilgrims he encounters along the Way. You’ll discover why so many people return to the Camino time and time again. This book will inspire you to begin your own journey, rediscover what ignites your passion, push you to move outside of your comfort zone, and provides plenty of opportunities for you to see what’s possible. Follow Author Michael Burnett as he leaves the world as he knows it behind to embark on a journey of self-discovery. His journey proves it’s never too late to learn what you didn’t know or to reinvent yourself and live a more fulfilled life. Review Loved it! With the Camino de Santiago as a backdrop, debut author Michael Burnett takes us on his transcendent quest to uncover afresh life's meaning! This poignant travel memoir invites readers along to see what he saw as walked the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain. The 500-mile trek comes to life in vivid detail in his daily diary entries and in conversations he had with those he met along the way. He shares stories of his life, mistakes he's made, lessons he's learned, hopes, dreams, lighter moments, and moments that will make your heart sing in this moving memoir. It will inspire you to begin your own journey, rediscover what ignites your passion, push you to move outside of your comfort zone. You know when a book kicks off with poetry from Uncle Walt (Whitman) that this is going to be the start of something amazing! And indeed it is, just like the final line from Whitman's "The Song of the Open Road" that author Michael Burnett quoted in this book: "...Strong and content I travel the open road." While tempting to see this as yet another travelogue in a sea of travelogues, what sets this book apart for this reviewer, was the fact that Burnett was also on a pilgrimage to (as his book's title aptly declares) "Finding Myself Along the Way." In reviewing this book, two words come to mind: Travel and Transcendence. While many trek the famous 500-mile Camino de Santiago in Northern Spain annually, few like author Burnett have gone a step further to map out his life journey into middle age using the Camino's breathtaking sceneries as a luscious overlay. Fewer still would have so meticulously chronicled the insightful conversations with fellow trekkers they meet along the way, as Burnett did in this excellent debut memoir. You can almost feel like you were there with him, so carefully did he unpack his experiences on the pathways, the different beautiful albergues he stayed in, and the stunning monuments he visited. That's the "Travel" part. Most of all, the colorful and varied fellow sojourners he met and got to know. And, along the way, how Burnett shared with them openly and honestly (and by extension, with us the readers), his own life journey that led him to Camino. That's the "Transcendence" part. Like Burnett, I too have taken the road less traveled in my middle age,
