Spring 2005: Stuckel trades bar work in southern Spain for the 500-mile Camino de Santiago. Along the way, he meets skinny-dipping innkeepers, entrepreneurial hippies, literary bankers, and a random smattering of lovable weirdos and survivors.
He keeps walking despite blisters, cracks, rubs, chafes, pinches, stubs, twists, pulls, pokes, sock bunches, thorn snags, sunburns, heat stroke, hunger, dehydration, insomnia, mudbutt, and overall weariness. And then there’s the mental side of things…
Read Guided by Shadows and discover the mystery, humor and absurdity of Europe’s most famous pilgrim path.
14,830 words // ~49 Kindle pages
FAQ
What does "Guided by Shadows" mean?
-When you wake up every morning and walk west, well...you have a guide in front of you.
I felt frustrated and uneasy that there wasn't a clear story arc to this book. What's up with that?
-The Camino can make you feel like that, too.
Does this really count as a book?
-Maybe we should call it a prose poem
He keeps walking despite blisters, cracks, rubs, chafes, pinches, stubs, twists, pulls, pokes, sock bunches, thorn snags, sunburns, heat stroke, hunger, dehydration, insomnia, mudbutt, and overall weariness. And then there’s the mental side of things…
Read Guided by Shadows and discover the mystery, humor and absurdity of Europe’s most famous pilgrim path.
14,830 words // ~49 Kindle pages
FAQ
What does "Guided by Shadows" mean?
-When you wake up every morning and walk west, well...you have a guide in front of you.
I felt frustrated and uneasy that there wasn't a clear story arc to this book. What's up with that?
-The Camino can make you feel like that, too.
Does this really count as a book?
-Maybe we should call it a prose poem
