100 Stories by Adam Nathan

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🚶Finisterre

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On Maslow's Hierarchy, the Animal Kingdom, REI and mega landscapes. An excerpt from "Finisterre," my account of walking a thousand miles from my home in France to the western coast of Spain.

Adam Nathan
Apr 08, 2025
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a person walking in a field
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A brief excerpt from “Finisterre,” an account of walking the Camino de Santiago. I’m fifty kilometers past Toulouse, it’s been raining all morning, and I’m learning something fundamental about the elements.

Imagine the pastoral stock photo above, but it’s a downpour and there are no trees and no friendly path and you’r…

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