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Under siege from relentless stage 4 cancer and after losing her right lung, Edie Littlefield Sundby became the first person in history to walk the entire 1,600-mile El Camino Real mission trail through the mountain wilderness of Mexico to Northern California.
She experienced desert heat and cold, walls of cactus, sleeplessness, hunger, both physical and spiritual exhaustion, the dangers of wild creatures, and encounters with drug smugglers.
This is her first-hand account of the experience and struggles she endured, and the inspiration drawn from the old unmapped Spanish mission trail. Her story is both an adventure story and a reflection on the universal experience of confronting our own mortality and what we do with our time left on earth.
Author Edie Littlefield Sundby’s book, “The Mission Walker,” is an Audie Award Finalist for Best Inspiration Book. In addition to this book, her essays have appeared in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. In May 2021 Edie started walking the 2,817-mile Old Spanish Trail road from San Diego to St Augustine Florida.