Camino, Portugal, and Anderson University
Walking from Porto to Santiago is roughly 280 km (180 miles) plus there is the additional 90 km (60 miles) extension from Santiago to Finisterre. This Way will mark this summer's pilgrimage on The Portuguese Way of the Camino de Santiago. Several days overlook the Atlantic Ocean from the Portuguese Coast. Other days turn inland through small towns and villages. The Portuguese Way is not only shorter but also less populated than the French Way, which I completed in 2018. I leave for the Camino in mid-June. I remain grateful to my wife and our children for releasing me from our home to make the pilgrimage. (I continually invite my older two children to join me - why do teenagers keep saying no to time with their dad and walking 200 miles in the heat????) I remember mapping out the Portuguese Way during the summer of 2020 with all expectations that the Covid-19 pandemic would end and travel would again be possible. I was mapping the Portuguese Way in preparation to walk the Way with...