Our project, The Modern Pilgrim, will illustrate our experiences walking the Camino de Santiago during the summer of 2024. We will include various pictures from our experiences in Spain, Portugal, and France, as well as other physical items. These might be our official Pilgrim Passport (with stamps from along the way), and pins and trinkets that we think hold cultural significance. Because we did an honors contract centering around the Camino immersion, we also have about ten pages of journal entries from pilgrims that we encountered. Essentially, we asked pilgrims about their motivations for taking on the historic walk and had them write these in the journal. Our goal was to create a collage detailing the motivations people have for walking to Santiago. The diversity was incredible! Religious reasons, personal reasons, losing a loved one, finding yourself, making peace.. these were just a few responses. We thought that CERCA would be a great opportunity to inform the community about the Camino de Santiago, and the incredible culture surrounding it.
