Season 2 Episode #25 Walking the Camino de Santiago with Kelli Field

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Season 2 Episode #29 Kelli Field coming from Galicia, Spain

You can find our guest via her website vivaespanamovingtospain.com – incredible site with so much useful information.

In 2017, after leaving her job, Kelli walked the Camino de Santiago from St. Jean Pied-de-Port nestled in the French Pyrenees, 800 km to Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain. The adventure was transformational and moving from the US to Spain with her husband, Jeff, was the logical next step. Except, well, stop right there! Because it wasn’t that simple (which in this episode we will explore the highs and lows of figuring out life abroad). 

Today, Kelli lives on a farm on the Camino Frances between Palas de Rei and Melide in Galicia, Spain. In Kelli’s words, “it’s Magic.”  Kelli has big plans including cultivating her  farm, opening The Happiness Cafe/food truck, sharing Camino and life inspirational tales on her Stories from the Happiness Cafe podcast.

Kelli has a blog that is meant to entertain and be informative for those who are looking to dip their toe into living abroad and over the course of her life, Kelli has always written stories. On cocktail napkins, the backs of menus while traveling for work. And she finally decided to share her gift of being a storyteller into blogs, articles, and books.  Check out The Red Rhino on Amazon. It’s a funny collection of essays about living life, raising kids and getting through it all. Kelli is published in the British literary magazine The Cabinet of Heed. And her first novel – The Grief of Goodbye – set in beautiful Northern Spain, was a finalist for several literary award in 2021.   

Kelli it sounds like you have made the choice to live a life of adventure and Life’s Essential Ingredients congratulates you on having the courage to chase your dreams.  Kelli, welcome to the show!

TOTD – “Without ambition, one starts nothing. Without hard work, one finishes nothing.    The prize will not be sent to you.  You have to win it.”                               Ralph Waldo Emerson

In this episode:

What was life like growing up

Making the decision to move to another county

Why Spain

What about your family

Camino de Santiago – explain it to the listeners

Top three differences you have noticed living in Spain vs. the US

FINDING PEACE

Keeping Life Simple – what is we are searching for?

Medical, Dental Care…

Legacy