Matosinhos to Vila do Conde: Portuguese Coastal Camino Day 2
In this introduction to the stages of the Portuguese Coastal Camino, I'm focusing on the stuff you actually need to know. You'll sort out...
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Tim Mathis
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Porto to Matosinhos: The Start of the Portuguese Coastal Camino
Distance: 11 Km Terrain A flat city walk along the river after you descend the hill from the Cathedral. So, you’re starting your walk on...
Tim Mathis
- 8 min
What do you REALLY need to know about the Portuguese Coastal Camino?
If you're interested in the Camino, and considering the Camino Frances, check my comprehensive guidebook "The Camino for the Rest of Us."...
Tim Mathis
- 12 min
How I Prepared for the Coastal Camino Portuguese using Backyard Adventures.
If you're interested in a full guide to Camino de Santiago preparation with structured physical training plans and advice about emotional...
Tim Mathis
- 23 min
The Essential Menalon Trail Guide: The Greece that you won’t find in Athens or the Islands.
Save money, experience the Peloponnesian, and avoid getting stranded on one of Europe's great underrated trails.
Tim Mathis
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18 books that you didn’t know were about pilgrimage, with very short reviews.
There are a lot of great books about the way that travel changes you. Some of them are recognized as classics about pilgrimage. Most...
Tim Mathis
- 17 min
A Template for DIY Pilgrimage and Backyard Adventure: Lessons from an Urban Thru-Hike in Portland
Lessons about DIY pilgrimage, backyard adventures, and urban thru-hiking from a really long walk in Portland.
Tim Mathis
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The DIY Pilgrim: A checklist for transformative travel based on age-old pilgrimage principles.
In this series of articles about the GAP Month, I’ve pulled together core concepts to help you, dear reader, organize a travel experience...
Tim Mathis
- 16 min
Go alone, but take people with you: Individual pilgrimage as a community endeavor.
Reflections from the Pacific Crest Trail about pilgrimage as both a solo endeavor and a community event.
Tim Mathis
- 13 min
Travel is my church: Using ritual to turn your trip into a pilgrimage (Go on, make it weird!)
I know "ritual" can seem creepy, but embrace it. Do odd things. Watch your trip become life-changing.
Tim Mathis
- 14 min
How to travel with intention: Deciding what your trip is going to teach you
It feels weird to talk about things like “setting intentions for your transformational journey," but such is life.
Tim Mathis
- 9 min
Why do people go on adventures? It's so simple that even a child could understand.
Adventure serves the same purpose for adults as play does for children: to learn to be human.
Tim Mathis
- 13 min
Pilgrimage means finding a place with a good story and moving your ass towards it.
We've introduced the concept of a GAP Month as a reliable framework for transformational travel. In short, it's a month of goal-directed...
Tim Mathis
- 11 min
Take a month off and it'll change your life: Messing things up enough to make a difference.
If you’re going to travel, you might as well do it right. (Right?) That's why we're here. This is part two in a series on the concept of...
Tim Mathis
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84 of the world’s best long distance pilgrimage and adventure routes.
File under: GAP Month inspiration. We’re serving 1997 Angelfire realness around here, so I made this unwieldy in-no-particular-order...
Tim Mathis
- 8 min
The GAP Month: How do you make travel life-changing?
The GAP Month: How to design your own transformative travel experience, based on centuries of pilgrimage wisdom.
Tim Mathis
- 13 min
Taiwan Cycle Route 1: What English-speakers need to know to bike around Taiwan.
11 things you need to know to have a great time on Taiwan Cycle Route 1. This article is a “Part 2” of a series on Taiwan Cycle Route 1....
Tim Mathis
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Why biking Taiwan Cycle Route 1 was the virtually perfect trip.
If you’re going to devote time and money to a trip, you want it to be good. Life-changing if possible. A lot of places in the world have...
Tim Mathis
- 10 min
12 Books that Define Dirtbag Culture (and a few more that should)
Books that have shaped outdoor and travel culture into what it is today.
Tim Mathis
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Ghost sighting: Crybaby Bridge, West Alexandria, Ohio. June 22, 2022.
It seems like there’s a Crybaby Bridge in every small town in the Midwestern United States. I don’t normally go for that stuff, but I...
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