Spanish Steps Camino Tours

12/15/2024

12/09/2024

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In the days of its archbishops Diego Peláez (1070-1088) and Diego Gelmírez (1070? -1140), the Romanesque basilica of Santiago was conceived- and conceived as a whole, as a perfectly interlocking structure where nothing was left to chance. Its architecture and sculpted covers followed a very specif...

12/03/2024

Step Into History with Spanish Steps of Aspen,Colorado.
April 5-12,2025 departure.
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11/21/2024

🎉 Jet Off to Jubilee Joy in 2025! - https://mailchi.mp/spanishsteps/jet-off-to-jubilee-joy-in-2025

11/15/2024

Our most amazing group of pilgrims on a 35 day journey across the Iberian peninsula. Buen Camino to all you brave souls.

11/14/2024

Camino Ingles - The Quiet Camino - https://mailchi.mp/spanishsteps/camino-ingles-the-quiet-camino

11/11/2024

Always a pleasant surprise to bump into these guys while out on a daily walk in the forest. Love these fuzzy burros. 🫏

11/04/2024

🌄 Finisterra: Trek to the Tip of the World - https://mailchi.mp/spanishsteps/finisterra-trek-to-the-tip-of-the-world

11/01/2024

As a historian, I learn from history. As a traveler, I learn about my home by leaving it and viewing it from afar. And as a citizen of the United States of America, I vote with those lessons in mind.

When we travel thoughtfully, we gain a clearer perspective on our own nation’s challenges because we see how other nations have dealt with the same issues. We see the consequences of ignoring a budding problem before it balloons into a big one. And we see the beauty that results when a challenge is dealt with thoughtfully and successfully.

As a traveler, what’s been on your mind in these final days before our election? As for me, I’ve been thinking about Germany, where I learned how a generation can be led astray by a charismatic leader and how the German people paid a huge price for their ignorance.

Ninety years ago, Germany had a bombastic autocrat who, by mobilizing an angry base, derailed their democracy. And when he came to power, opportunists clamored for his favor. He gave a lot of medals to those loyal to him. The country was swimming in medals…heroes everywhere. Then, when it all fell apart, he retreated to his bunker, where he continued to egg on his base until, as the world closed in on him, he committed su***de.

With the leader gone, medals splashed like raindrops into lakes across the land. Suddenly, all those loyalists and heroes were nowhere to be seen — and medals proclaiming party loyalty were ditched and forgotten…as if they never existed. The adulation just vanished. And people no longer named their sons Adolf.

After years of lies, fear-mongering, and empty promises, Hi**er had re-wired the brains of his base — the angry ones who followed him without question. Even when it became clear he was leading his nation into a devastating mistake, Germany had no escape.

In the end, Germany was destroyed, and the Russians raised their flag over the Reichstag.

The lesson for America? Today, Germans invest in educating their electorate...because they’ve learned from their dark history, and they see education not as a perk for society’s privileged but as a national security issue. (In America, some complain about “educated elites.” That’s a problem we can solve — not by dumbing down our society, but by providing a better education for all our citizens...before they become thugs ransacking our capital. Imagine a society where there’s nothing “elite” about a quality education because it’s accessible to all.)

I’d love to read your thoughts on how lessons from your own travels have influenced how you think about the challenges we face at home today.

10/30/2024

10/28/2024

Hola todos. I just wanted to share a photo of our retreat center in the mountains of Spain. Check out this video we made to show you the beauty of the area we call home.
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Saludos desde España.

10/23/2024

Enjoy our live Monday Night Travel party with this video recorded on October 21, 2024. Travelers learn that when history speaks, we should listen. And in this special Election 2024 edition of Monday Night Travel, we join Rick Steves for a thought-provoking trip that goes back a century to track the....

10/23/2024

Congratulations to with for making it to Santiago and for having us lead this beautiful group of yogis along the path to Compostela. A special thanks goes out to the dynamic duo of Jen and Raquel for such excellent guidance filled with compassion, knowledge and friendship. The best of the best.
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10/22/2024

I just watched this 60 minute lecture by Rick Steves and a collection of historians on the subject of fascism. It’s grim. Let’s not have history repeat this chapter.

Rick Steves' Europe © 2018 | In this one-hour special, Rick travels back a century to learn how fascism rose and then fell in Europe — taking millions of peo...