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This woman just hiked all the way from Paris to the northwest corner of Spain,
Santiago de Compostela. For a thousand years, pilgrims have made this trek for
reasons I don't understand. I'll never forget seeing the jubilation on the faces as
triumphant trekkers of all ages and languages—walking sticks frayed, pant-legs
fringed, faces sunburned—paused to savor the sweet moment when they finally
reached their goal. I'm not sure why this moved me so. Perhaps it's the timeless
power of individual faith. Maybe it's heritage and tradition. Or it might be the no-
tion that people would abandon everything and move mountains for treasured feel-
ings and beliefs that never even occurred to me.
Regardless of your journey, you can put a little pilgrim in your travels and find your
own personal jubilation.
