Books and Resources

Inspired by my walk along the Camino in 2013, Step by Step was created to deepen your experience on the Camino de Santiago. If you’re longing for daily encouragement, quiet moments of reflection, and gentle spiritual guidance along the way, this book is a companion for your journey.

Nourish your soul with this 33-day devotional and journal, designed to invite you into prayer, stillness, and deeper awareness. Each day offers a reflection to help quiet the mind, open the heart, and listen more closely to God’s presence within. As you walk this sacred path, Step by Step gently encourages you to move forward with love, compassion, and a renewed sense of purpose.

Small and lightweight, it’s made to travel easily in your backpack. Inside, you’ll find not only daily reflections and journaling space, but also a glimpse into the history, traditions, and spiritual rhythms of the Camino. You’ll be introduced to simple prayer practices to enrich your days, along with space to record your distances, dates, and personal milestones.

Each day begins with a reflection and a meaningful quote, followed by room to write your own story. And because every pilgrim walks at their own pace, extra reflections and journaling pages are included for the days when you need more space to linger.

As your journey comes to an end, the “Journey Home” section offers prayers and reflections to help you transition from pilgrimage back into everyday life. Even as you return, the grace of the Camino remains with you—its lessons, its stillness, its nearness to God—never far, always within reach.

This is your pilgrimage. Your story.
Walk it, and write it—step by step.

There are many guides to the Camino, but this is the classic first choice—the 2024 edition, now available on Amazon. Updated with newer maps and photos, and reduced in height by 20 mm to make it even lighter for easy, carefree travel, this comprehensive guidebook provides everything modern pilgrims need to walk the sacred Way of St. James.

Inside, you’ll find overview route planners, daily stage maps, and detailed town plans to help with every aspect of your journey. Contour maps illustrate the terrain you’ll cross each day, while complete listings of pilgrim hostels and alternative accommodations make it easy to plan your nightly stops with confidence.

Beyond practical guidance, the book also includes spiritual insights and reflections to nourish the inner journey alongside the outer pilgrimage. Covering the Camino Francés—the most popular route from St. Jean Pied de Port to Santiago—this guide equips you to walk with both knowledge and heart.

A must-have companion for anyone preparing for the Camino, this book is all about helping you let go and pack wisely. Highly recommended by pilgrims everywhere.

“Love this book! My Bible for the El Camino…”—a trusted guide used by thousands to figure out exactly what to bring on your journey. Inside, you’ll find:

• Pros & Cons for tricky gear decisions: poncho or rain jacket? Water bottles or hydration pack? Sleeping bag or sleeping sheet?
• A complete “skin-out” pack list, showing every item along with its weight.
• Tips from experienced backpackers on how to create a lightweight pack—so you can walk farther while carrying less.

This guide helps you travel smart, pack light, and step onto the Camino fully prepared for the journey ahead.

2026 edition

Updated to include newer maps and photos and with an additional 16 pages, the latest edition in these comprehensive guidebooks to the Camino de Santiago (Portuguese Way) and its offshoots contains all the information needed by modern-day pilgrims wishing to walk the sacred Way of Saint James from Lisbon via Porto to Santiago. Overview route planners plus all 24 daily stage maps and detailed town plans help sojourners with as much advance preparation as they need. The maps feature contour guides to help distinguish the terrain that will be crossed each day, while full information on all pilgrim hostels, as well as details for alternative accommodation, allow travelers to plot adequate nightly stopping points. All reference information is accompanied by helpful spiritual guidelines to support the seeker’s inner journey as well as the outer pilgrimage. For travelers who wish to walk the coast of Portugal, this volume now includes a coastal option as well as a spiritual option and the littoral path.

A powerful tale of self-discovery and a journey for the ages. Get lost—and found—in the brilliant words of the renowned international bestseller, Paulo Coelho

Alongside The Alchemist, this is a book I return to again and again.

The Pilgrimage laid the foundation for Paulo Coelho’s international bestseller The Alchemist. In many ways, the two books are companions—understanding one deepens your appreciation of the other.

Step into this enthralling account of Coelho’s own journey along the road to Santiago. Part adventure, part spiritual guide, it explores the search for one’s true path and reminds us that the extraordinary often emerges from the ordinary, simple acts of daily life. Rich with insight and wonder, this timeless tale is both a story of discovery and a mirror for our own inner journey.