Just a backpack

All her life, Mabel Sanders, a passionate hiker, planned to hike the Way of St. James, the famous Camino de Santiago trail in north. She finally did the 1,000-year-old pilgrimage to the shrine of St. James in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela as a 50^th birthday present to herself. She hiked 38 days, 8-10 hours a day, starting from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port on the French side of the Pyrenees to the Atlantic coast of Spain, a total of 758 kilometers. She did not have a cell phone but used an iPod Touch 4 to make free Viber and Skype calls to communicate daily. While hubby Jim was in Houston, Mabel met people from all over the world and received a cherished certificate of accomplishment at the church.

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