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Sanford and #039;Sandy and #039; Brown is a community activist, long-distance walker and ordained minister from Seattle, Washington. Inspired by The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho, he trekked the Camino de Santiago in 2008 and since then has walked or biked over 18,000km on pilgrim trails in Spain, France, Switzerland, Italy and the United States. He leads group pilgrimage treks through his travel company, www.pilgrimpaths.com. Sandy earned his undergraduate degree in medieval history at the University of Washington in Seattle, his MDiv at Garrett Theological Seminary, which honored him in 2006 as a Distinguished Alumnus, and in 1997 earned a doctorate from Princeton Theological Seminary in gender, sexuality and spirituality. In 2023 the European Association of Via Francigena Ways bestowed its Honor Award on Sandy for his contributions to the development of the route. He has two grown sons and lives with his wife, Theresa Elliott, in Lucca, Italy. Nicole Bukaty is a secondary school French and Spanish teacher in Perthshire, Scotland. Originally from Kraków, Poland, she grew up in London and France, and has lived in Colombia, Spain and Russia. She has a BA Joint Honours degree in Philosophy and Hispanic Studies and an MA in Philosophy, both from King and #039;s College, London. She obsessively uses up her holidays and weekends to hike mountains or take on long-distance walks, totalling about 9000km so far, predominantly on pilgrim routes. She has even completed 450km all on asphalt from her mother and #039;s house in Ilawa, Poland, to the Polish monastery of Jasna Góra in Czestochowa. She is the author of the Vía de la Plata and Camino Sanabrés guidebook, 15 Short Walks Perthshire North guidebook, and co-author of the Via Francigena Part 4 guidebook for Cicerone. Her next project is a guidebook to the Gudbrandsdalsleden St Olav Way hike in Norway. |
