Since September 1 Carrie and I have been traveling the Camino our way, and the way many pilgrims do, starting in St. Jean Pied de Port, France, getting our compostelas (credentials that prove we have been traveling the Camino) stamped at least once a day, and moving on down the road to the next town and the next stamp. We’ve accumulated quite a few stamps along the way.
A Pilgrim Passport 
Our stamped passports
Sarria, a busy Camino town of about 13,000 inhabitants, has become a starting point for many pilgrims who can’t do the entire Camino, but who still want to get a compostela in Santiago. To do so, it’s required that they walk a minimum of 100 kilometers (about 62 miles). Starting at Sarria gives them the required miles they need. Because of this shorter route to achieve a compostela, Sarria is now a hot bed (literally) of Camino activity. Pilgrims arrive here by bus and the rail station and quickly fill up the hotels and bars and restaurants. What was once a quiet tranquil walk is now a bustling thoroughfare of chatty walkers hoofing it for five days into the cathedral at Santiago to get their compostelas.
A perfect storm:
Rocks, rain and an uphill
climb
Digital Postcards 