Entertaining the pilgrims

Every person you pass calls out: “Buen Camino!"  Which translates as ‘good trip.’  It’s a really encouraging greeting and makes you feel like you are doing something special and worthwhile.  “Buen Camino," we all call to each other.

I’m passing several hundred pilgrims a day and it gets more each day the closer I get to Santiago.  It’s a greeting as old as the hills and dates back to medieval times.  However, being serenaded by a musical local…that’s something new.  Jose and his guitar entertained me on the way into town.  It’s a wonderfully uplifting moment.