by markwestwriter | Jul 29, 2017 | Uncategorized
I left the auberge in Pamplona at 630 and walked across the street for a cafe con leche. Penny and Rachel had left earlier so I sat down for a coffee alone. After a few minutes other pilgrims streamed in. I sat at the bar and listened to their excited chatter, knowing...
by markwestwriter | Jul 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
I packed up and walked out of the small (2 rooms 16 beds) auberges in Zubiri, and across the street to the cafe where I had ran into Kento for I think the 2nd time last year. (Kento was the “Zen Coyote Patron Saint of the Camino” for those who were along for the ride...
by markwestwriter | Jul 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
A promotional video for my blog/book I created to show to agents/publishers: DAY TWO Last nights dinner in Rocenvalles was awesome. One might not think so considering what I had to go through to get fed. It was sort of as if the Keystone Kops were on Kitchen...
by markwestwriter | Jul 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
Last years blog began with me pondering the eternal question: “Who ever thought my pilgrimage would begin with me jerking off into a plastic cup? I’ve rethought that. I’m thinking my pilgrimage actually may have started on a dirt path in the hills of Palos Verdes,...
by markwestwriter | Jun 13, 2017 | Slider
Life, Love, and Forgiveness on the Camino de Santiago
by markwestwriter | Jun 13, 2017 | Slider
A l i t t l e b o o k a b o u t a b i g i d e a !
by markwestwriter | May 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
*Note- I’m still evolving the “form”, if you will, of this blog. I want it to be stylistically somewhat similar to the blog I wrote while I walked the Camino de Santiago, where I decided to intertwine two significant journeys I’ve undertaken over the...
by markwestwriter | May 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
I woke up today in darkness.And it wasn’t because it was 530. I’m not talking the darkness outside, but to the darkness inside. It’s a blackness I haven’t seen in awhile. I had chased it away. But there it was, reminding me of it’s prickly nature. It was the blackness...
by markwestwriter | May 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
This book sucks! It sucks the life out of the old paradigm that has held us humans captive since before the Industrial Revolution. I’m talking about the paradigm provided to us by industrialized man and modern science that’s convinced us we’re static...
by markwestwriter | May 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
“All Roads Lead Home”. It’s what I called the blog I wrote about my walk across Spain on the Camino de Santiago. The first post began “…for now, I’m standing at the edge of uncertainty, staring at the abyss and a 482 mile walk across...
