Chapter 2: Les Baux, France (2010)

Everything I knew about the Camino before I began my 1,000 mile walk: scallop shells, rock piles, pilgrim passports, a Diamond Vision scoreboard, and meeting a cool, Vermont, Robert Frost sort of God.

You can really play the pilgrim out there. It is late summer 2010, and we’ve only lived in France for a month. I’ve seen two pilgrims already just by chance, and oh, my goodness, the first one! I was with the children and we were walking down from the old castle in Les Baux, which is very near Arles, the start of one of the four main French pilgrimage r…