About this episode

Sadie Yates shares her experiences hiking the Camino de Santiago and its impact on her life and studies.

Sadie Yates, now a PhD candidate in Theology, spent the summer between her Masters and PhD program hiking the Camino de Santiago. The 500 mile trail leads from the Pyrenees Alps in France to the town of Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain, and has served as a major route for pilgrims to the cathedral for hundreds of years. We talked to Sadie about what it’s like to hike Camino, the transformational nature of the trail, and why it set her on the path to hike a new pilgrimage trail ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Devin Windelspecht, Michael Windelspecht, Eric Weber

Guest: Sadie Yates

Topics covered

• pilgrimage
• hiking
• transformation
• theology
• travel
• Camino de Santiago

Keywords

• Camino de Santiago
• Sadie Yates
• hiking
• pilgrimage
• theology
• transformation
• travel

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Camino de Santiago, Pyrenees Alps, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, France

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