A Camino de Santiago Story: To The End of the World 

Hank, I'm the Catholic priest you interview in 22:30. People from Denver to Romania have told me about seeing me on this, so I see it's getting the rounds. Most importantly, I remember meeting you on the Camino and I remember all your passion for this ancient pilgrimage that has moved us both. You did a great job on the video, from what I've seen of it so far. Congrats on all the many views. Hope to meet you again somewhere in the world. Buen Camino, amigo!

My son do the camino 4 years ago and found his wife there, they have their first son last month.

Brought a tear :) My wife and I are 70 years old and we're going to try walking from Porto and onto Finisterre. You've inspired us.

This brings back so many memories. In October 2019 pre COVID I had competed the Camino De Santiago at age 15. It is probably my greatest achievement in my life so far

dear Hank, it's Camilla. I don't really know if you remember me, I was one of the two walking with Ruben the guitarist. :) this video was a wonderful punch in my stomach ahah I lived for a second time so many memories. thank you... thank you. and say hi to amalia and that she has too keep on with the weird faces :) one super hug

Every time I see this lovely video... I cry like a baby! Thank you Hank for the memories. I think I'm taking off on a third Camino, I miss it soo much! Susan ... Walking strong at 67!

On 21 May 2017, I am ready to start my 7th Camino in 3 weeks. I do it in memory of my daughter who passed away in 2010.

The Magic Of Spain..

I hope Amalie sees this too; sometimes we go trough our whole life without finding the treasure the two of you found on the Camino. It was meant to be that you two meet there. That was so pure and genuine and beautiful; I honestly have no words. It doesn’t matter where the two of you are and how far you are from each other, the two of you belong together. Don’t waste this opportunity to share your happy self with somebody as special as Amalie. 🙏😍

This is honestly one of my favourite videos I've ever watched on YT. Your storytelling is awesome.

10:25 just made me realize how happy I am that I took the plunge and started a relationship on the camino, even though she's from the other side of the world. We're now 2 months from our 5th wedding anniversary and have the typical crazy life of a family with two kids.

Been recommending this video for everyone who has a transition period and it is lost in life. Every time I see this video, I have the feeling I want to do the Camino again - I've being doing many times already. This is most probably the best video about the Camino which shows the real essence of that and the connection with human being.

A 7 year old video still holding its power to amaze and to inspire

I walked The Camino in 2007, when I turned 50. Due to foot trouble, I was not able to finish, but I did get to Santiago and hug the saint. Thank you so much for this video, it brought back so many amazing memories, and I definitely want to go back. I will get there!

My Cousin's are doing this journey on Sept 9th 2019 for all our family, friends & community in God! I bless them and all in their journey 💜! You journey was amazing & beautiful, I have lived vicariously thru your eyes as I am disabled and my journey will only be in my dreams.

Hank, this is still my most favorite Camino film. I’ve watched it many times over the years! And always find myself coming back to it.

"I'am not sure if I believe in the transformational aspect of it" (1:55). Well Hank, just compare your face on the start and the end of your movie. What a beautiful movie!! Filled my eyes with tears. Reminds me of my own walk. And your story is beautiful in itself. Hope that you and Amalie find a way to share your life together. Thank you for making my day beautiful!

Amelie and you are going to walk the Camino again someday :-)

Met my wife on the camino in 1984 and 33 years later We are still on our camino through life together, Best documentary on the camino ever and I hope you guys stay in touch.

This was a very beautiful film! You totally inspired me. I felt your blisters, I missed Amelia too when you missed her, my toes got cold when you both touched that cold water and I almost cried when you reached the church AND the ocean! I know we don't know each other but I am so proud of the both of you!

Fantastic travelogue and video, Hank. I will repeat almost every other viewer's remark: Your video is the best of the lot. So excellent, in fact, I can only wonder on which side of the bed those 58 thumbs downers awakened when they cast their votes. You capture rather deftly the stray moments of external anguish (blisters! tendinitis!), sure, but also the enduring internal joy experienced by all the pilgrims and of course by you. Difficult to notice the many but ephemeral woes when surrounded by such beauty as abounds on the Camino. That beauty, I think, has us all looking up and out, not down and in. You also are a generous filmmaker, allowing your new friends their own moment(s) to shine brightly. And none more so than Amalie. Her purity of spirit you mention comes through loud and clear repeatedly but especially when eating the donut (a GREAT sound effect you added, that choir of angels!), drinking the beer, missing the chocolate factory in Astorga, and climbing the pillar of rocks at Cruz de Ferro. THAT moment, when you segue from video to a still shot of Amalie looking up at the Iron Cross, is hauntingly beautiful, really REALLY well done. You should be proud of yourself. Gosh, not to seem weird but for the many many moments of beauty and grace Amalie adds to (my enjoyment of) your video, I am happy to buy her a lifetime Netflix subscription. :-) In fact, I want to pay YOU for the video you have obviously crafted with attention and love. Alas, I see no way to accomplish either objective. What, no tip jar? Anyway, your cinematography, editing, music, and monologue - with your fellow pilgrims and with us - have inspired this old fellow to break out his Merrells and do the Camino one more time. Thank you. Buen Camino -- on the Way and in Life! PS. You and I have swapped homes. I now am in Edmonds. (Thank you for the recommendation of Aqua Verde Cafe! :-) When I lived in LA and trained for my Camino, I would hike from Will Rogers, up and over the Backbone to Trippet Ranch, and then down Santa Ynez Canyon or Temescal to Sunset, where I would catch a bus back to Will Rogers and finally trudge up that street to the Park. Just like the Camino, with all the cars racing by. But the distance, inclines and declines, and time added up to perfect training.

Hank, I had an amazing experience watching this video. The video is over and these words of yours have stayed with me.... "It's very hard to let people go... I always wanted to say well if i am not going to see you for the rest of our lives, it was great meeting you in away that's kind of weird like you cannot say to someone you just met but you want to because you want to appreciate the people in the moment. Camino really forces you to appreciate people in the moment..."

This is so heartwarming. It is true that it should be how people treat each other! This whole journey is so beautiful, and meaningful. Everything leads up to that exact moment at the end! Thank you for this video

Que inspiración tu viaje,me lleno de alegría y hasta de fe,muchas gracias por compartir tu viaje,por hacernos parte de tu historia,hace tiempo estaba buscando un video de el camino de Santiago Santiago asi de narrativo. Gracias

thanks hank, brought tears to my eyes and then down my face, remembering my camino and magical stories like yours, thankyou

We watched your excellent video with 16 other people. At the end of the video some were crying but all of us were speech less waiting for something that never came, something like “... and they live happily ever after...”. One of us said “I wish I could find my Amelia in the Camino, I won’t let her go”. Congratulations.

Decir que me ha encantado ver vuestra aventura, he recorrido el Camino de Santiago en varias ocasiones y siempre que puedo, vuelvo a él. He sentido emociones que estaban ahí grabadas en lo más profundo de mi ser...GRACIAS 😊

I loved this video! Thank you, so much, for sharing it. I hope to be able to walk that path some day.

So lovely. I became tearful, then cried as I remember my own Camino. You capture the experience - the mundane, emotional, and spiritual aspects - so well. Buen Camino, Hank.

Dear Hank - I'm 77 and a widower, with one replaced knee and the second strongly suggesting it too wants to leave my body. Thank you for this poignant and inspirational video. This is my third time watching it and for the last two, I was hoping for a different ending - that you and Amalie connected permanently. Maybe if you do, the North/South Camino route will be your honeymoon walk. Be well, and thank you again.

I could relate to all of this. Just completed my first Camino from SJPDP to SANTIAGO last month. Loved it. Great job helping to relive the memories.

The trip is worth the blood, sweat and tears, the experience you get there is priceless! love this documentary! it really discribes the life on the camino! job well done!

This is one of my favorite videos about the Camino, with awesome views, and the very special friendship of two young people. I also did the Camino some years ago together with my husband, it was a fantastic experience. I hope when this pandemic is over I will be able to go again under the stars, know these little ancient villages, meet so many people from all over the world, share your thoughts and experiences, to discover things you never thought they existed and to walk and walk with your heart filled with joy. Thank you Hank for sharing your story with us.

es el mejor reportaje del Camino de Santiago que he visto... excelente visión "a pié ", narrativa entrañable, magnífica fotografía. Enhorabuena!.saludos desde Canarias

I have watched this several times and it does not get old. Thanks for sharing your Camino adventure!

🎉This is a GREAT Camino Frances video. It brings soooooo many good memories!! Thank you!!! Cathy 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🤩

Hank, of all the RU-vid videos I've seen on the Camino, yours has best captured the experience of the pain of intense but fleeting friendships. Great work, and looking forward to more videos from you!

how wonderful and magic! You caught the spirit of the Camino!

I’ve walked he exact same route in 2017, I just found this video, and you made me cry. Wonderful way to share your experience, thank you for bringing back the memories, and for inspiring me even more to go back!

i made the same way last year, it took me 30 days to santiago, only one blister, just using a normal new balance shoes, the weather was all season at the same time on every day, that was in april,and arrive at Finisterre at day number 32, and definitely i’m going to do it it again and again...the most amazing experience in my life

Dear Hank, thank you so very much for this video! I walked the Camino in 2019 and, as I watched your film, found myself bursting into tears over and over. You perfectly highlighted so many of the spectacular moments (Cathedral in Burgos, Singing Nuns in Carrion, etc...). I experienced your video as a gift. Love and blessings to you! Ultreia!

Hank...This was wonderful to see. I met a couple last July who has walked the Camino de Santiago and to see it via your video, made me want to experience it as well. This couple is a bit older and after this amazing experience, sold everything and moved to Mexico. The couple's wife said that walk changed the way she viewed life completely. Now I know why. Thank you.

This is one of the best videos i have ever seen on RU-vid, and I have been watching RU-vid for 10 years

One of the best videos I have seen about the Camino. Many congratulations. I started walking on the 2nd June 2015. I am 64 and did it in CELEBRATION for a personal achievement. I have interpreted my very own dreams for 20 years and I am a different person! It was an amazing journey and I think EVERYONE SHOULD BE DOING IT....!

You did such a great job in carrying the story all the way through the video. Letting people go is part of the process of traveling and hiking. It makes us stronger and value people more while we enjoy their company.

Thank you for sharing your journey so openly! beautiful!

This makes me cry . Beautiful piece. Thank you Hank. It is the best video of many Ive watched.

Thank you for sharing your Camino, it was beautiful. I leave in two days for my Camino. Buen Camino

I just watched this for the second time in a year and find it beautiful to watch how chemistry between you and Amalie was instantaneous. I certainly hope you still stay in touch and also that you found a way to be a couple...in the same country. El Camino was the perfect setting for your encounter. (I’m from SF and met a girl in Spain [Española], the first day I ever set foot in the country, 20 years ago next month, and felt the same way you felt about Amalie...you didn’t want to live without her and didn’t want the togetherness to end. Well, I’m very happy to say that we married, in Spain in 2005, and we live in SF. We will eventually retire in there and have agreed that [my] first order of business is to walk El Camino while she spends the time visiting with her mother) BUEN CAMINO!!!!!

Such a beautiful video! I actually cried at the end. Prayers for you and Amalie.

Thanks Hank. Beautiful Video I've been to Camino twice, now I have reminisced my memories and I missed again

Hank, es un video excelente, muy bien narrado todas las experiencias del Camino. Felicitaciones!!!

This was amazing. I am doing the Camino in August and this video motivated me even more. I can't wait! seeing that 0,00km marker at the end must have been a great feeling! great achievement.

Brilliant video! This made me think of my own Camino completed in Oct 2023. I miss it soo much and this brough back so many beautiful memories. Thank you

AMAZING video!!! We only hiked 2.2 miles but this video sure brought back some memories. Thank you.

I was documenting myself about El Camino because I am going to do the French Way from Roncesvalles next May, and I have found this gem, so thank you Hank for having managed to capture in just over half an hour the essence of this genuine experience that is El Camino. I think that everyone should do at least once in their lives to connect with themselves, and find answers to important things from the simplicity of the route, stripped of almost everything, which brings out the essence of what we are as human beings, that somehow interconnects us all. What an example of transformation is observed in you, from the first days to the last, is inspiring for me, and makes me wish that the days that remain to do my own Camino will quickly weigh. Thanks again and God bless you Hank !! ❤

Oh man, I stumbled upon this and really enjoyed it. Actually, I feel really moved too. It seems that you two guys became close and it's a very lovely story. I wouldn't ever lose contact between you two. Thanks Hank, great little film!

I appreciate and admire your honesty about your feelings. Making connections like those are hard. But it means they are so worth it.

So so beautifull,i walked it one and a half time,and this year 2019 i go again. Thank you Hank for this.

I just finished my Camino on October 27, and this took me right back! Thank you for that!

Im from Texas and found this vid so motivating and awesome. You are a brave man for commiting this journey alone. Thank you so much for your effort on building this inspirational vid. i cant wait to start my camino in 2020

Uno de los mejores videos que he visto! lo he disfrutado mucho! great job Hank!

Fantastic video Hank, watching it I couldn't help but think how much the Camino symbolises life. We all travel the same journey but move through it at different paces. People come and go, some are meant to stay and make the journey with you. The fact you and Amelia parted then resumed your journey together again was perhaps a sign from above. Anyway, all the best.

Conozco la emoción del camino, sufrí... Me sentí pequeño, lloré y fui feliz. Bendito Santiago...

I just finished watching this. LOVE LOVE LOVE! You are an amazing storyteller.

Such a great story Hank. All my feelings from my Camino in 2019, came rushing back and I am so glad to be returning in April 2020. I don't know what I would be doing if not dreaming about, and walking the Camino.

Hank , thank you so much for the amazing film .

The best Film about the Camino I have seen until yet. Top Work !

That was awesome , happy , sad , thought provoking and beautiful all rolled in to one . Hope you guys hook up you looked so perfect together. Respect to you

Wow, watched it thrice now over the last weeks and it is still so touching. Will start my Camino in 2 weeks, so almost the same time as you. I just hope that I make so lovely and heart warming memories as you did. Thank you for all your love and effort you put into this video!

Wow Hank, your video touched my heart Thanks a lot

Literally that view of the Atlantic Ocean from that coastal town of Finesterre is the end of the Old World (Europe)…looking out west to the Americas and the New World…and symbolically for many of the pilgrims on that epic journey meant leaving behind something that’s gotten old…and beginning something new. Enjoyed your video-thank you for sharing.

Dude.....I'm 70 yrs old....a spaniard (born in a town nearby the cruz de ferro) living in the US for the past 50+ yrs....I know this come a couple of yrs late (just found your video today ....(I live in Jacksonville.Fl.) and I really like your post....May the gods of the camino guide you and Amelia....to a happy ending.....

Since 2015 I'm watching this video at least once a year - and it is still one of the best Camino videos on RU-vid. 🙂 Thanks a lot for it - again.

Thank you Hank for this wonderful document of your Camino. I’m sitting here on a Saturday evening with tears in my eyes over how you manage to catch the feeling of you inner journey and meeting Amelia with such compassion. All the best to both of you. I’m planing to walk the Camino later this year and you have really inspired me. Many thanks. /Björn

so, at that point.... I don´t know if I like the most that INSPIRATIONAL music, that wonderful landscapes, your story with the girl or the editing for having me all the time of the video watching....what can I say... Congratulations because THAT´S the magic of El Camino, I am very glad you already know my country and the north with this magic story... Of course you will never be the same as before (take that for sure) but not because El Camino is over, The way NEVER is over, it will be always with you because YOU are El Camino, every pilgrim have its own experience because is not about walking or getting to several stages, El Camino is open your feelings, expose them and, for once in your life, sharing on real time (not with and IM app or in a Wall in Fb...you look directly to the eyes of the other person right by your side and share those precios moments so don´t be afraid, you´ll never finish El Camino... Congratulations Hank , hugs and lots of Love for you for sharing this piece of art and of course to Amalie because El Camino never stops living ....

no doubt one of the best made videos. it's encouraging. profound and in very good quality. thanks for the effort. bless you

Definitely, one of my all time favourite Camino RU-vid videos. Brilliantly storied, shot and commentated. Love it!

I saw this video before going to the Camino de Santiago. I went there last year and I still see this video. It's beautiful and brings back memories. thanks.

absolutely stunning video, you actually moved me to tears.. every second was just so beautiful, i really feel like you've captured the essence, the spirit, the true Camino so thank you for the inspiration.. i'm planning on walking the Camino next year, walking alone to free myself, to find myself and my truth.. your film has lifted my heart and my soul, thank you so much.. lots of love.. xxxxx

Dear Hank, Thank you. And your most poignant point was - "Relish that moment you have." Thank you for that! Iain.

Thank you Hank for taking us on your adventure. We have enjoyed coming along with you. We hope that the Camino has opened up a new path for you. A beautiful and moving video, well put together. Many blessing to you on your future adventures. It will be our turn in three weeks time as we are about to embark on the Camino. All the very best, cheers Joseph & Peter.

Perfect! I walked June/July 2015 and had over a dozen blisters! You did such an awesome job of capturing the joy, disappointment and ultimately overcoming all adversity. I have tried so hard to be able to explain how close you get to people that you have barely known and you nailed it! I found myself over and over again saying, "yeah, felt that!" I am 61 this year and am walking again with my 19-year-old son this June... I have been thinking about the next Camino almost immediately after returning. We'll see if we keep walking to Finisterre. Thank you for such an honest and beautiful memoir!

Wish I'd watched this before I walked it. You nailed it Hank. I walked with 25 blisters from day one and it almost crippled me. I really felt your pain. Thanks for being so open and honest emotionally. It really shows what a struggle all of us go thru when walking this journey. I was hoping for a happy ending with Amalie, love to you both.

That is why I love my country, special the last scene, there is no sun like in that in world., I miss that place.

Thank you for making and sharing your wonderful human experiences of walking the Camino De Santiago. It was very moving.

This is the most meaningful video on the Camino De Santiago. Thanks!

The camino will transform you in so many ways, trust me.

This is by far the best Camino video I've seen so far. Very beautiful! Thank you!!

Thanks Hank. wonderful movie. Have seen it several times, and plan to take the Camino next month. Thanks for your honesty and the way you are

Beauty full Vid Hank, really enjoyed it and was a great insight into the camino. Im gonna do it after watching this, i did a pilgrimage around Wales in the UK last year and loved every second of it, 7 weeks on the trail and this has got me to realise thats what we are supposed to do with life and the time we get. So THANK YOU for sharing and re kindling that flame i never knew was gone. I hope you and Amelie get to travel together again, looks like there was something special there for sure. Peace and love man, keep wandering :)

Hank, this is the best video report on Camino I´ve ever seen. You got your life´s thruth sharing your experience. Thanks. By the way, I´m galician!

Beautiful Love Story !Thanks for sharing !

Dear Hank, I walked the Camino with my wife Lynn in May June this year (2017). Your film moved me deeply, thankyou for filming this. It was liked I walked the Camino again. The best Camino movie I have watched to date. Buen Camino

great job! one of my favorte camino vids!

You captured so much of the commraderie and beautiful freedom of the Camino. Thank you for allowing me to reconnect to those feelings of unabashed joy and inspiration to simply enjoy the journey. Buen Camino, peregrino!

Grazie per aver condiviso con tutti noi il vostro Cammino per Santiago

Lovely video Hank! Thanks... I love the whole part of your journey, and I love that you met Amelie along the way. You two looks good together. I, too, would love to walk Camino de Santiago one day.

This was an amazing video, I went to Santiago de Compostela and heard about the camino de Santiago for the first time there. I didn't think it was a big deal at first but after watching your video, I can see the big meaning it carries for those who decide to walk 700+ km. I now feel interested on doing it. PD: This whole video is also a love song for Amelia!

Great video. I just toured Portugal and Spain, and saw many of the individuals that walked the camino, would love to do it one day Lord willing. Thank you for sharing this beautiful adventure. By the way you and Amalie make a great couple.