Would she end up stuck? Even more unhappy? She was a “bit fearful” of what would happen if she just left things rolling on, unchanging.
“Workwise, I was also in kind of a rough spot, I had a really tough year of teaching.”Īs she tried to escape these feelings by socializing and keeping busy, at the back of her mind, Loni knew what she really needed was time to pause and reflect. “It really spun me into questioning my own values and my own future – whether I wanted kids, what was my path for that?” Loni tells CNN Travel today.
Loni was a 29-year-old Californian school teacher who was “at a crossroads.” She’d just endured a tough break-up and was feeling adrift. When Loni Philbrick-Linzmeyer decided to walk the Camino de Santiago, she was adamant this was something she had to do alone.