👣 Noire Pilgrim: Salamanca
Salamanca is an old city in the autonomous community of Castile and Leon on the camino Via de la Plata. It is home to the Old and New Cathedrals … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
👣 Noire Pilgrim: Reading the Signs – Part 2
Old school wood sign on the camino
I am having a time, mostly good, reading the markers and signs on the camino to Santiago de Compostela. In the last … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
👣 Noire Pilgrim: Reading the Signs
An arrow on the ground composed of rocks points the way to Santiago
What signs? How do you read the signs? Nature and all things in it are our … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
👣 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 ➞ ➞ ➞