Eric Sutton-Outside Reading: Book Review

I read a book review about the pilgrims who travelled on the Mayflower and landed in Massachusetts.  The review made me think about the definition of a pilgrim.  Pilgrims are travelers to a holy place, which is a pretty obvious.  We’ve talked about them a lot in class, but there are a lot of different types of pilgrims.  Christians, Jews, Muslims, and many other religious people search for their holy places.  In the case of the Mayflower pilgrims, they sought a place of religious refuge, where they could practice their religion in their own manner, but do all pilgrims seek to find refuge?  Do all pilgrims seek to find something specific or do some just begin traveling in hopes of finding something along the way?  I guess this takes us to the personalized experience of each pilgrimage.  Every pilgrim  seeks and finds something different, which is where the destination versus the traveling experience can come into play.