The Double Life

"When I was young I always wanted to live the double life", said Raoul,"but now I have to work..."

Ok I'll admit it, the main reason why I even cared to ask my sexy environmentalist college professor about his journeys' across the Tundra, the Jungle and the Deserts, is because I had a huge freakin' crush on him.

I mean he had the most gorgeous blue eyes, a cute Spanish accent and he actually cared about...well hippy things.

But that's besides the point. The Double life that Raoul speaks of  is a mixture of the life you want to live and the life you have to live. It's Avatar vs Reality. When I speak of the life you want to live I don't mean succeeding within this society like: I wanna be a billionaire, be surrounded by hot beezies and crap on a gold toilet seat.

I'm talking about a full out escape, a day without concrete, without billboards and skyscrapers. "You mean like the country?", yeah I guess so except even in the country there are social pressures pulling you back to the center of urban reality.

So back to my story, when Raoul told me about the double life he spoke straight to my soul. So I started Hiking. Every possible moment that I could, I took a train here, took a bus there and got to know my local mountains.

It was beautiful. I saw waterfalls, lush greenery's and heard the true sound of silence. the silence is something we take the most for granted, I feel. Every train ride I took home was a slow painful approach to an urban reality I did not want to live. I would see Madrid's skyline and the juxtaposition of concrete light by fluorescent lights and cry. I didn't want the other reality...at all.

This is Camino

So I decided to go on a really, really REALLY big hike. It's called El Camino de Santiago, the way of St. James. It is a four-week, 800km hike across the north of Spain. It is also a 1000 year old Christian pilgrimage.

What I wanted out of this journey was just 3 weeks of non-stop nature, what I got was so much more. I met friends that I have never forgotten. I got closer to my own friends on a whole new level. I freed my mind from all of my "real world" addictions like Redbull,Chanel, Facebook and Bravo TV.

But most of all I got to know a beautiful new natural reality, and my imagination started to take over. I used to believe that me and my group were like members of lord of the Rings and that I was this special princess who was on a mystical quest. Come on, who doesn't want that!?!?!? Isn't that why everyone loves Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and Avatar?

We all want to go on this simple beautiful and natural journey where we follow our personal legend(as Coelho says) and become who we want to be instead of who they want us to be. Well I don't know about you guys, but I'm sick of living their reality. In a few months I will do the Camino de Santiago again. I will post pictures and tell you all about it, except when it's done, I won't come back to "Reality".

I am on the Right, I felt like such a princess in that outfit

I've never Seen any of us look Happier