1KHO 887: Walking Is One Of Our Grandest Purposes On This Earth | Sean Dietrich, I Would Walk 500 Miles

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Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside Podcast. My name is Ginny Yurich. I'm the founder of 1000 Hours Outside. And wow, have I been looking forward to this. Sean Dietrich is back. Sean, welcome.

**Sean Dietrich** (1:12)
Thank you for having me. You always make me feel so welcome here. You know that?

**Ginny Yurich** (1:15)
Oh, I saw you out years ago. I'd read your book where you had done one of the Pacific Crest Trail type things. I mean, I said the wrong one. And I so thoroughly enjoyed it. It was so funny. You're like on your trike. And it just changed my life. And I have become such a huge fan of your writing. In fact, I didn't even know about your blog at that point. I had intersected your story with your books. And at this point have read so many of them. And I saw you were coming out with a new one. And I was like, oh, I hope he'll come back on. So huge thank you, gratitude for me for saying yes. And huge congrats on your new book.

**Sean Dietrich** (1:53)
Well, thank you. You again, you make me feel like, golly, I don't know if I'm ever gonna want to leave your podcast because you might feel so great whenever I'm here.

**Ginny Yurich** (2:02)
John, I love this book. It's called I Would Walk 500 Miles, which first of all, what a brilliant title. It's so brilliant. I mean, everybody loves that song. A Memoir of Learning, You Have Always Been Enough. I loved it. I got 11 pages of notes on it.
Even just going back through it a second time, I was like, this book is so deep. Now, here's the situation here is that this is a memoir. So this is non-fiction. But wow, are there some twists and turns and people are going to have to read it.
You can't talk about the twists and turns that happen more toward the end, middle toward the end. So people are going to have to pick it up. But there's still be a lot to talk about.
But it is a striking book. It is a shocking book. It is a deep book. It is an interesting book. But I will tell you, I had not even heard of the Camino Trail up until just a year or two ago from a podcast guest who was heading there. And I was like, I've never even heard of that. So can you explain how you even found out about it to begin with? And then you and your wife, Jamie, and this is a co-written book that you've done together. And I love it. Her journal entries are in this book. You decide to take a little more than a month to just walk.

**Sean Dietrich** (3:16)
Yeah. Yeah. Well, first time we ever heard about it was actually at a small book club that I was talking at just for the night. There were like 12 people or so in a back room at like the community center. And they were wanting to talk, they wanted me to talk about the book that I just, that you talked about at the beginning, You Are My Sunshine. And so I'm talking about it.
And at the end, the guy comes up and he says, Have you ever heard of the Camino de Santiago? Said, you know, vaguely, I might have heard of it, but I don't know much about it. He said, man, I think there's some richness there for you. If you ever investigated, I'd be very interested to hear what you have to say about it. I put that in the back of my head. We never thought about it again. I did never think about it again, but my wife did.