{"id":17182,"date":"2025-12-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caminodesantiagofrances.com\/en\/?p=17182"},"modified":"2025-12-04T19:19:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:19:33","slug":"seis-semanas-recorriendo-el-camino-de-santiago-con-mi-madre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caminodesantiagofrances.com\/en\/seis-semanas-recorriendo-el-camino-de-santiago-con-mi-madre\/","title":{"rendered":"Seis semanas recorriendo el Camino de Santiago con mi madre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

El viaje que nos cambi\u00f3 para siempre: Cr\u00f3nicas de un Camino de Santiago compartido<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

En 2024, tuve la oportunidad de recorrer en su totalidad el Sendero de los Apalaches, una caminata de 2,200 millas desde Georgia hasta Maine a lo largo de las Monta\u00f1as Apalaches. Fue la cosa m\u00e1s grande que hab\u00eda logrado en mi vida y cambi\u00f3 mi vida para siempre. Durante la caminata, escuch\u00e9 hablar de m\u00e1s caminatas de larga distancia y el Camino sal\u00eda a colaci\u00f3n frecuentemente. Mi amiga, Lauren, me pregunt\u00f3 si quer\u00eda hacerlo con ella en octubre de 2024 despu\u00e9s de completar el Sendero de los Apalaches y le dije que iba a pedirle a mi mam\u00e1 que lo hiciera conmigo. El 24 de enero a las 9 p.m., mi mam\u00e1 estaba visitando Utah y est\u00e1bamos todos en casa de mi abuela y le pregunt\u00e9 si caminar\u00eda el Camino de Santiago Franc\u00e9s<\/a><\/strong> conmigo. Ella inmediatamente dijo que s\u00ed sin saber a qu\u00e9 se estaba comprometiendo. As\u00ed que empezamos a investigar y esa noche vimos la pel\u00edcula “The Way” (El Camino) con Martin Sheen. Fue incre\u00edble, est\u00e1bamos decididos y resueltos a hacerlo desde ese momento en adelante.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Planeamos y comenzamos a reservar vuelos y alojamiento, y a idear un plan sobre c\u00f3mo encontrarnos, cu\u00e1l ser\u00eda nuestro equipo, qu\u00e9 ruta har\u00edamos, cu\u00e1ntos d\u00edas y toda la log\u00edstica intermedia. Mi amigo de la infancia me hab\u00eda invitado a su boda de destino en el lago de Como, Italia, en agosto y le dije a mi mam\u00e1 que ya ten\u00eda un vuelo en agosto, as\u00ed que empecemos el 1 de septiembre y hagamos la ruta m\u00e1s com\u00fan, el Camino Franc\u00e9s de 6 semanas desde St Jean Pied De Port hasta Finisterre, el fin del mundo. Ser\u00edan m\u00e1s de 500 millas y entre 35 y 40 d\u00edas. Compramos y cargamos nuestro equipo y 8 meses despu\u00e9s nos encontramos en una plaza en Pamplona, Espa\u00f1a. La emoci\u00f3n era inigualable, est\u00e1bamos viviendo una pel\u00edcula. Mi mam\u00e1 le dec\u00eda a todos: “No soy excursionista, pero cuando tu hijo de 31 a\u00f1os te pide pasar 6 semanas con \u00e9l, no importa lo que est\u00e9s haciendo, dices que s\u00ed”. Muchas personas no tienen esta oportunidad de pasar tanto tiempo juntas. Mi mam\u00e1 se hab\u00eda jubilado recientemente, as\u00ed que ten\u00eda el tiempo y estaba disponible. Yo hab\u00eda terminado un verano en Alaska pescando salm\u00f3n y septiembre era el momento perfecto entre trabajos de temporada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mi mam\u00e1 estaba muy nerviosa ya que esto estaba fuera de su zona de confort, y yo estaba demasiado confiado habiendo hecho recientemente una caminata 4 veces m\u00e1s larga y m\u00e1s salvaje en las monta\u00f1as. Nos encontramos en un punto medio y hab\u00edamos hablado de todo sobre expectativas, descanso, pausas, distancias y nuestros l\u00edmites. Ninguno de los dos pod\u00eda contener la energ\u00eda y el entusiasmo que ten\u00edamos por esta b\u00fasqueda que est\u00e1bamos a punto de comenzar. Al empezar, ten\u00eda una visi\u00f3n y me propuse metas, incluyendo crear recuerdos inolvidables con mi mam\u00e1 y sellar nuestra relaci\u00f3n, adem\u00e1s de buscar una experiencia espiritual y crear amistades y conexiones duraderas con personas de todo el mundo. Esto es exactamente lo que sucedi\u00f3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A lo largo del viaje, escrib\u00ed los nombres de 180 personas en mi bast\u00f3n de senderismo especial que me fue regalado por el due\u00f1o de un negocio en uno de los peque\u00f1os pueblos por los que pasamos. Las 180 personas eran de 35 pa\u00edses diferentes y ten\u00edamos una historia \u00fanica con cada una de ellas. Considero a cada uno de ellos parte de mi familia del camino y conectados de maneras que normalmente no se dan en la vida diaria en la sociedad. El camino era algo diferente. Muchos dec\u00edan que el Camino era la forma de Dios de mostrar c\u00f3mo los humanos deben interactuar entre s\u00ed. Sin separaci\u00f3n de clases y dinero o profesiones, todos en el mismo camino de la vida, alcanzando la misma meta sin contienda ni problemas del primer mundo. Las personas que conocimos en el camino fueron excepcionales. Llor\u00e9 con ciertas personas, escuchamos desde las historias m\u00e1s inspiradoras hasta las m\u00e1s desgarradoras y todo lo intermedio. Todos ten\u00edan razones similares pero \u00fanicas para estar en el Camino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mi mam\u00e1 y yo siempre nos mantuvimos juntos, a menudo entabl\u00e1bamos conversaciones con otras personas y grupos en el camino, pero rara vez, o nunca, est\u00e1bamos fuera de la vista el uno del otro. Ambos valor\u00e1bamos nuestro tiempo juntos y sab\u00edamos lo pronto que terminar\u00eda, as\u00ed que pasamos cada segundo juntos que pudimos. Entramos en conversaciones profundas, sobre la vida, la familia, cosas de las que nunca hab\u00edamos hablado antes. Cosas que nunca hab\u00edamos imaginado o pensado antes. Fue una limpieza espiritual para ambos descubrirnos a nosotros mismos de maneras que no hab\u00edamos visto antes, as\u00ed como superar obst\u00e1culos y cosas que inhib\u00edan nuestra propia felicidad. Fue verdaderamente un cambio de vida y, mirando hacia atr\u00e1s, sab\u00edamos que nunca volver\u00edamos a ser los mismos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

El clima fue incre\u00edble para nosotros, pero si llov\u00eda, sonre\u00edamos el doble, esto no empa\u00f1\u00f3 nuestra felicidad. Ya fuera temprano o tarde, nublado o soleado, concurrido o vac\u00edo, disfrutamos cada minuto del Camino. Hubo algunas experiencias que se sintieron celestiales, como la tormenta de lluvia subiendo a la cumbre de Foncebad\u00f3n<\/a><\/strong>, la subida a O Cebreiro<\/a><\/strong> mientras sonaban las gaitas en la cresta, la flora y fauna cruzando los Pirineos, los amaneceres y atardeceres, la primera vez que vimos la Catedral de Santiago de Compostela<\/a><\/strong> desde el Monte de Gozo<\/a><\/strong>. Cada d\u00eda quer\u00eda expresar mi gratitud a Dios por esta hermosa tierra. Encontramos belleza donde otros no lo hicieron. En cada pueblo, cada catedral, la meseta, las colinas, el bosque, las calles, todo era hermoso para nosotros.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Siempre tuvimos el objetivo de llegar a Finisterre, el fin del mundo, una caminata de 90 km m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de Santiago de Compostela<\/a><\/strong>, por lo que pensamos que Santiago ser\u00eda solo un hito a lo largo de nuestro viaje y no nuestro destino, pusimos \u00e9nfasis en disfrutar la traves\u00eda, y no esperar para expresar emociones y gratitud al final, sino todos y cada uno de los d\u00edas. No pensamos que ser\u00edamos dram\u00e1ticos y llorar\u00edamos cuando lleg\u00e1ramos a Santiago, pero ese no fue el caso. La ma\u00f1ana del 30 de septiembre, mientras baj\u00e1bamos los antiguos escalones que conducen a la plaza, el centro del Camino de Santiago, nuestras emociones estallaron. Finalmente lo hab\u00edamos logrado. Lo hicimos. Hicimos lo que dijimos que \u00edbamos a hacer hace 8 meses. Mi mam\u00e1 hab\u00eda logrado algo que antes pensaba que era imposible para ella f\u00edsicamente. Nos abrazamos, lloramos, re\u00edmos y no pod\u00edamos creer lo incre\u00edble que nos sent\u00edamos al haber terminado algo tan notable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Al salir de Santiago, todav\u00eda nos sent\u00edamos hambrientos por terminar un viaje a Finisterre, nuestro verdadero destino donde no puedes caminar m\u00e1s, donde el sol se pone para morir, donde la tierra se encuentra con el oc\u00e9ano. Esos \u00faltimos 4 d\u00edas fueron tan especiales para m\u00ed y fueron tan buenos para nosotros para recibir un cierre y darnos cuenta y asimilar lo que acab\u00e1bamos de hacer. Tambi\u00e9n fueron algunos de los d\u00edas m\u00e1s bonitos a trav\u00e9s de frondosos bosques llenos de helechos y \u00e1rboles y entrando en la Galicia costera, nuevamente nos sentimos exaltados, honrados y agradecidos por una oportunidad \u00fanica en la vida. El d\u00eda que llegamos a Finisterre, fue un sue\u00f1o hecho realidad, nos tomamos nuestro tiempo y la primera vez que vimos el oc\u00e9ano y la primera vez que vimos el faro en el fin del mundo, nuevamente se sinti\u00f3 como si el tiempo se detuviera y el mundo que nos rodeaba se centrara en esa \u00fanica cosa hacia la que hab\u00edamos estado caminando todo este tiempo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

El Camino nos cambi\u00f3 para siempre. Las cosas de este mundo que estresan a la sociedad ya no tienen lugar ni tiempo para nosotros, estamos verdaderamente en paz. He llegado a saber que el verdadero sentido de la vida es experimentar alegr\u00eda. Esa alegr\u00eda para m\u00ed viene a trav\u00e9s de los hijos de Dios y la creaci\u00f3n de Dios. Las interacciones que tuvimos con otros peregrinos y personas en el camino hicieron que el Camino sea lo que es. La naturaleza cruda e ind\u00f3mita nos conect\u00f3 con la tierra. Pero lo m\u00e1s importante, pude pasar tiempo con la persona m\u00e1s importante de mi vida, mi mam\u00e1. Estamos unidos para siempre gracias al Camino de Santiago, y esas experiencias que compartimos juntos vivir\u00e1n para siempre a trav\u00e9s de las fotos y videos que capturamos, y los sentimientos y la energ\u00eda que sentimos a lo largo del sendero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christopher James Brown<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Instagram: christopherjamesbrown<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

English Version<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Six Weeks Walking the Camino de Santiago with My Mother<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Journey That Changed Us Forever: Chronicles of a Shared Camino de Santiago<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In 2024, I had the opportunity to thru hike the Appalachian Trail, a 2,200 mile hike from Georgia to Maine along the Appalachian Mountains. It was the greatest thing I had accomplished in my life and changed my life forever. During the hike, I heard talk of more thru hikes and the camino got brought up frequently. My friend, Lauren, asked me if I wanted to hike it with her in October of 2024 after completing the Appalachian Trail and I told her that I was going to ask my mom to hike it with me. On January 24th at 9pm, my mom was visiting Utah and we were all at my grandma\u2019s house and I asked her if she would hike the Camino de Santiago with me. She immediately said yes without knowing what she was committing to. So we started researching and that night we watched the movie, \u201cThe Way\u201d with Martin Sheen. It was amazing, we were determined and set on it from that point forward. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We planned and started booking flights and lodging, and figuring out a plan on how to meet, what our gear would be, which route we would do, how many days, and all of the logistics in between. My childhood friend had invited me to his destination wedding in Lake Como, Italy in August and I told my mom I already had a flight in August so let\u2019s start September 1st and do the most common route, the 6 week Camino Frances or French route from St Jean Pied De Port to Finsiterre, the end of the earth. It would be over 500 miles and between 35 and 40 days. We got our gear purchased and loaded up and 8 months later we met at a plaza in Pamplona Spain. The excitement was unmatched, we were living a movie. My mom would tell everyone, I am not a hiker but when your 31 year old son asks you to spend 6 weeks with him, it doesn\u2019t matter what you are doing, you say yes. Many people do not get this opportunity to spend this much time together. My mom had recently retired so she had the time and was available. I had finished a summer in Alaska fishing for salmon and September was the perfect time in between seasonal work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My mom was so nervous as this was out of her comfort zone, and I was over confident having just done a hike 4 times as long and more untamed in the mountains. We met in between and had talked everything through about expectations, resting, breaks, distances and our limits. Both of us could not contain the energy and stoke we had for this quest we were about to begin. Going into it, I had a vision and made goals, including creating unforgettable memories with my mom and sealing our relationship, in addition to seeking a spiritual experience and creating lasting friendships and connections with people around the world. This is exactly what happened. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout the journey, I wrote down 180 people\u2019s names on my special hiking staff that was gifted to me from a business owner in one of the small towns we passed through. The 180 people were from 35 different countries and we had a unique story with each one of them. I consider every single one of them part of my camino family and connected in ways that you don;t normally do in daily life in society. The camino was something different. Many said that the Camino was God\u2019s way of how humans are to interact with each other. No separation of classes and money or professions, all on the same path of life, reaching towards the same goal without contention and first world problems. The people we met along the way were outstanding. I cried with certain people, we heard the most inspiring stories to the most heartbreaking stories and everything in between. Everyone had similar yet unique reasons for being on the Camino. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My mom and I always stuck together, we would often get into conversations with other people and groups along the way but we rarely if ever were not within sight of each other. We both valued our time together and knew how soon it would be over so we spent every second together that we could. We got into deep conversations, about life, family, things that we had never talked about before. Things we had never imagined or thought about before. It was a spiritual cleansing for both of us to discover ourselves in ways we hadn\u2019t seen before, as well as overcome obstacles and things inhibiting our own happiness. It was truly life changing and looking back we knew we would never be the same. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The weather was incredible for us, but if it rained, we were smiling twice as big, this did not dampen our happiness. Whether it was early or late, cloudy or sunny, busy or empty, we enjoyed every minute of the Camino. There were some experiences that felt heavenly, such as the rain storm headed up to the summit of Foncebadon, the climb to O Cebreiro as the bagpipes were played on the ridge, the flora and fauna crossing the pyrenees, the sunrises and sunsets, the first time we saw the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela from the Monte de Gozo. Every day I wanted to express my gratitude to God for this beautiful earth. We found beauty where others didn\u2019t. In every town, every cathedral, the meseta, the hills, the forest, the streets, it was all beautiful to us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We always had the goal of reaching Finisterre, the end of the earth, a 90 km walk past Santiago de Compostela, so we thought Santiago would just be a milestone along our journey and not our destination, we put emphasis on enjoying the voyage, and not waiting to express emotions and gratitude at the end, but each and every day. We did not think we would be dramatic and cry when we arrived to Santiago, but that was not the case. The morning of September 30th as we walked down the ancient steps leading into the plaza, the center of the Camino de Santiago, our emotions broke out. We had finally made it. We did it. We did what we said we were going to do 8 months ago. My mom had accomplished something she thought was previously impossible to her physically. We hugged, cried, laughed, and could not believe how amazing we felt having finished something so remarkable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we left Santiago, we still felt hungry for finishing a journey to Finsiterre, our true destination where you can walk no further, where the sun sets to die, where land meets the ocean. Those last 4 days were so special to me and were so good for us to receive closure and realize and swallow what we had just done. They were also some of the prettiest days through lush forests filled with ferns and trees and entering into the coastal Galicia, we again felt exalted, humbled, and grateful for an opportunity of a lifetime. The day we arrived to Finisterre, was a dream come true, we took our time and the first time we saw the ocean adn first time we saw the lighthouse at the end of the world, it again felt like time paused and the world around us all focused on that one thing we had been walking towards this whole time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Camino changed us forever. The things of this world that stress society out no longer have a place or time for us, we are truly at peace. I have come to know that the true meaning to life is to experience joy. That joy for me comes through God\u2019s children and God’s creation. The interactions we had between other pilgrims and people along the way made the Camino what it is. The raw, untamed nature connected us to the earth. But most importantly, I got to spend time with the most important person in my life, my mom. We are forever bonded thanks to the Camino, and those experiences we shared together will forever live on through the pictures and videos we captured, and the feelings and energy we felt along the path. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

El viaje que nos cambi\u00f3 para siempre: Cr\u00f3nicas de un Camino de Santiago compartido En 2024, tuve la oportunidad de recorrer en su totalidad el Sendero de los Apalaches, una caminata de 2,200 millas desde Georgia hasta Maine a lo largo de las Monta\u00f1as Apalaches. Fue la cosa m\u00e1s grande que hab\u00eda logrado en mi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729],"tags":[730],"class_list":["post-17182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-relatos-de-peregrinos","tag-un-relato-al-dia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caminodesantiagofrances.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caminodesantiagofrances.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caminodesantiagofrances.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caminodesantiagofrances.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caminodesantiagofrances.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caminodesantiagofrances.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caminodesantiagofrances.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caminodesantiagofrances.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caminodesantiagofrances.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caminodesantiagofrances.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}