I woke up excited and confident for the day to begin. On my schedule was an employee party at the ski area where I was working and then a party with my boyfriend’s family. I knew a chair lift would be running on the mountain to snowboard but I was over bo ...
Camino Day 2: Portomarin to Palas de Rei
DAY 2: 15 miles +1681 feet -1060 feet I woke up and the swelling in my leg looked like it had gone down a little. I was still not very confident about why it was swollen and still worried that something was damaged. I decide ...
Camino Day 1: Sarria to Portomarin
DAY 1: 14 miles +1381 feet -1555 feet After getting as much sleep as my jet lag would allow, I woke up energized, excited and a little nervous. The time had come to experience this transformative pilgrimage that I had worked ...
Eating Barcelona Up!
It was hard to believe this long awaited trip to Spain was finally here! Everything I had fought so hard for over the last year was about to begin. I was really excited and overwhelmed at the same time. What was to come? Did I pack everything? Did I trai ...
My Pilgrimage to My Pilgrimage
My Camino story started fall of last year when I randomly ran across Justin Skeesuck and Patrick Grey’s Facebook post advertising a fully supported 117K hike on the Camino de Santiago trail in Spain the fall of 2019 for people with physical challenges ...
Educating the Educators of Health Care
The National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education puts on an annual Nexus Summit in Minneapolis that educates administration and professionals in the health care field using a method called Interprofessional Education or IPE. It has man ...