Sometimes you might need more than a vacation, coming up we're exploring three very different pilgrim trails.

The headwaters of the Mississippi River can be a lovely place to kayak, but record temperatures and low water might make you recalibrate.

The natural world is perhaps our best teacher I call it the classroom, but I also call it the cathedral.

You could set aside a month to walk the medieval Camino di Santiago in Spain.

It just might reset your mental state.

It gives you a feeling of great, well self-confidence and you feel at ease with just the essentials.

Orgo road tripping on the back roads of the desert southwest. It's where you can find many different kinds of sacred spaces.

You come to beautiful sanctuaries, most of them Adobe, red, soft curves, these gorgeous buildings that invite you in.

Let's journey together in the hour ahead. It's travel with Rick Steves.

Roadside crosses and shrines, petroglyphs and pueblos. There are many kinds of places woven into the landscapes of the American Desert Southwest.

Places with a distinctive sacred vibe to them.

In a bit adventurous, Christina Nielsen takes us to some of her favorite places in New Mexico.

And German comedian Hoppe Kirkling gets serious about how six weeks of hiking the community Santiago in Spain

helped him recover from overwork and misplaced priorities.

It turned him from a couch potato into an unlikely pilgrim.

Let's start the hour with Dave Ellingsen. Mother Nature had a few surprises Dave hadn't counted on to make a Minnesota kayaking voyage memorable.

It can be your own personal cathedral or maybe even a virtual sweat lodge.

Dave Ellingsen has found that a long kayaking trip in wilderness is just the ticket to help you think about life and find inspiration along the way.

He recently retraced part of his epic 2,500 mile kayaking adventure down the length of the Mississippi River by kayaking the River's headwaters in Central Minnesota.

And he's written a book to share his experience and Dave joins us now on Travel with Rick Steves to tell us what his latest paddle trip taught him about the impact of a changing climate.

And about life Dave thanks for joining us my pleasure Rick good to be with you.

You know your first Mississippi River paddle was like 10 years ago 2500 miles the entire length of the Mississippi all about as you wrote adventure learning pilgrimage.

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