Flights

Episode 5: What Are You Walking Away From? What Are You Walking Towards?

The Camino de Santiago is an ancient pilgrimage that dates back over a thousand years and traces its roots back to medieval stories and miracles.

In the final episode of our Flights Summer Book Club, host Stephanie Tam shares her week-long pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago in Spain. Why have people been drawn to walk the Camino from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century? Why are more people than ever—over half a million in 2025, both religious and non-religious, with numbers steadily increasing—walking to Santiago today? What are they walking towards? And what are they walking away from?

And why did Stephanie decide to make the trek? What surprised her along the way? Did she find what she was looking for?

Final Event Timing and Details

Episode 4: Found in Translation

What goes into translating a book from one language to another? How do you preserve something when your task is to change everything? What do translation and travel have in common? And why is translation, like travel, such an elusive concept? In this episode, we speak with Jennifer Croft, the

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Our Collaborative Travel and Memory Map

When Stephanie and I were planning the book club, one idea we landed on early on was that of a collaborative travel and memory map. There is nothing like hearing first hand about someone’s adventures and discoveries and memories, and where it all went down. Together, as a book

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Final Event Timing and Details

Episode 4: Found in Translation

This Is Your Captain Speaking

Our Collaborative Travel and Memory Map