designing my own sketches of Spain.

In the last couple of weeks I've taken on a second job for the sole purpose of raising airfare dollars.  I have a couple of domestic destinations that I hope to reach before the end of the year, but my extra toiling is expressly going toward airfare for a trip to Spain over the upcoming winter holidays.  I haven't been out of the USA for three years, and that's made me itch pretty bad.  So, now, with a destination in sight, I have a plan.

I'd been thinking I definitely wanted to check out Barcelona (that's where Americans have to go, right?).  But in a travel essay I read this week, I learned about el Camino de Santiago, a 500 mile path that's been traversed by pilgrims traveling across northern Spain for the past 1,000 years.  I've measured between the days I have off and the mileage I'll be able to get in, and I'm going to do a leg of it that will take about a week.   I am very excited.

drawing of an Antwerp-influenced Dutch tile (238) from 1000 Tiles .