The Closest Thing to Magic, The Camino de Santiago: Through My Mother's Forgetting And My Own Becoming

Some journeys take you across countries. Others take you home.

At the edge of burnout, heartbreak, and midlife reckoning, Andrea Hogan knew something had to change. Juggling motherhood, career pressure, and the slow devastation of her mother's Alzheimer's diagnosis, she made a radical choice: she stopped. She laced up her boots, packed her mother's old Camino diary, and set out to walk more than 500 miles across Spain on the Camino de Santiago.

Years earlier, her mother had walked the same pi...