Actor and writer Andrew McCarthy and his son, Sam, spent a month walking the Camino de Santiago, an 800-km walking route across northern Spain.
The Camino de Santiago is an 800-km walking route across northern Spain, which began as a Catholic pilgrimage in honour of St. James in the 8th century. An estimated 300,000 people still walk the Camino each year — some as an act of faith, others for personal reasons, or the opportunity for reflection.
"I wanted to get to know my son. Not just in the parent-child, dominant-submissive or rebellious roles, but as adults, as equals, as peers," he said.McCarthy wrote about their journey in his new bookMcCarthy invited his son Sam to walk the Camino so that they could spend some time together. McCarthy walked the Camino once before, in the 1990s. His movie stardom was fading, and he says he was looking to his future.
Father and son at the Santiago de Compostela cathedral in Santiago, Spain — the endpoint of their walk. McCarthy had felt bombarded by his fame in his youth, and worked hard to shield his own children from it.Pretty in Pink "My son is the kind of guy you sit him down for a chat, you're not going to get much out of him," McCarthy said.
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