It was a journey Penny Nickel had been carrying in her heart for years.
Yet as the Conestogo grandmother took her first steps on a momentous 780-kilometre Camino de Santiago pilgrimage through France and Spain, she admitted some trepidation.
“I did question myself, thinking, ‘What have I gotten myself into on this trip?’” she said of the moment she trekked into the foothills of the Pyrenees after leaving the rustic town of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port in southern France.
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