{"id":109428,"date":"2025-02-06T14:52:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T22:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=109428"},"modified":"2025-04-17T10:16:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T17:16:38","slug":"practical-pilgrimage-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/practical-pilgrimage-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Practical Pilgrimage – Now Available!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

M<\/span>y new book, Practical Pilgrimage<\/em>, is now available for purchase. Subtitled “Useful Rules for Walking the Camino de Santiago”, it’s a deeper exploration and expansion of a blog post that appeared back in 2023, Thom\u2019s Practical Rules for the Camino<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchase on Amazon<\/strong><\/a> (affiliate link)
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Purchase at Barnes & Noble<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This short book (about a hundred pages) is chock-full of photos and anecdotes from my five Camino pilgrimages illustrating the twelve rules. Some of these stories are not particularly flattering to the author, but that’s the price you pay for gaining experience – and hopefully some wisdom as well.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I can already hear you saying, “Rules?<\/em> For the Camino? But everybody walks their own Camino! Who are you<\/em> to give me rules?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, yes. That’s true. But echoing the disclaimer in the original post, I say in the book’s introduction, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These are my rules for a successful Camino. You may very well decide that these rules aren’t for you. Fair enough. Everybody is different, and everybody\u2014as they say\u2014walks their own Camino.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m just trying to give you the benefit of the mistakes I’ve made so that when you make mistakes, they are new and different mistakes.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having said that, Rule 4 applies to everybody. Obey Rule 4.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

If you’ve walked the Camino de Santiago or you want<\/em> to walk the Camino, you will find these rules helpful. If nothing else, you can laugh at my mistakes while I worked them out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Purchase on Amazon<\/strong><\/a> (affiliate link)
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Purchase at Barnes & Noble<\/strong><\/a>
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My new book, Practical Pilgrimage, is now available for purchase. Subtitled “Useful Rules for Walking the Camino de Santiago”, it’s a deeper exploration and expansion of a blog post that appeared back in 2023, Thom\u2019s Practical Rules for the Camino. Purchase on Amazon (affiliate link)Purchase from Powell’s Books (preferred)Purchase at Barnes & Noble This short book (about a hundred pages) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40,3,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camino","category-moments-in-time","category-resources"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Practical-Pilgrimage-front-cover.jpg?fit=1676%2C2552&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-ssY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":106892,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/going-on-camino\/","url_meta":{"origin":109428,"position":0},"title":"Going on Camino","author":"Thom","date":"05 May 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The pilgrim's badge to Santiago de Compostela we leave for Spain. 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