Slow Your Roll: Ruminations & Reflections On My Walk Across Spain

In college she was an American in Spain, spending a year studying abroad in Madrid. Thirty-five years later—after sending the last of her children off to college—55-year-old Meg S. Maloney decided it was time to fulfill a long-held dream: complete the legendary Camino de Santiago. In May of 2019, Meg left her home in Northern California to set off alone on the challenging, inspiring 550-mile walk across Spain, not knowing what she’d find or who’d she become. This is her story.