I walked 1000 km and wrote a book about it.
The Silver Route, Via de la Plata, or Balata as it was called in Arabic 🌾

The Via de la Plata was the first Camino I wanted to walk.
But I wasn’t sure I could do it. On that route you carry everything yourself, food and water, and many days are long distances with few places along the way, not like the other Caminos.
So I jumped into the Camino Portugués instead, and then the Camino Primitivo.
Then I came back to it. I walked the Via de la Plata to wrap up my one-year spiritual quest, a quest about one question: where is home?

It was one of the most different experiences I’ve ever had, and it was worth it.
While I was walking, I was just in the walk. Many days I was exhausted.
But something carried me. The beauty and the solitude.

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One step at a time.
One page every day.

The Silver Route is my diary from that walk. Every day holds a reflection and a conversation with the Great Mystery (the life force that moves through everything). Some days, that conversation comes in the form of a poem. Each day ends with a question for the reader.

Some patterns can’t be thought through.
Only walked through.

This book is for anyone who walks, or longs to, and likes to pause and reflect along the way. For those dreaming of the Camino, and for anyone carrying the big questions of life, like: where is home?