Losing Her Way and Finding Herself on a Spanish Pilgrimage: An elder walks the Camino de Santiago de Compostela

Crow's Feet Podcast

Dec 14 2022 • 26 mins

Mary Louisa Cappelli was already in great shape, hiking five miles a day regularly. When she decided to walk the Camino at age 67, her main fear was getting lost.  Mary Louisa had already achieved so much – recognition as an ethnographer, a teacher, a surfer, and a mother of five daughters. What drove her to walk the fabled Spanish holy trail, the Camino de Santiago de Compostela?  Host Jean Feldeisen, a therapist and Crow’s Feet writer, talks with Mary Louisa about her solo pilgrimage and some of the lessons she gleaned from other Elder pilgrims she met along the way.

If you’d like to read more of Cappelli’s work, visit her page on Medium (https://marycappelli.medium.com/)

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