Spiritual Growth Through Travels, Nature, And Living Life: There are many roads to realizing one's inner-self

A lifelong traveler, riding on a train from Long Beach to New Orleans, Louisiana, at age one--in the middle of World War II, to a 520-mile pilgrimage trek on the Camino de Santiago in his mid-seventies--the author describes many ways he has grown internally as a result of his travels and bonding with nature.

A few travel highlights include a five-month tour of Western Europe in the early 1970s, many road trips through the United States and Mexico, walking across Northern Spain on the two lon...