089: The Mission Walker with author Edie Littlefield Sundby Part 1

California Frontier by Damian Bacich, Ph.D.

Mar 19, 202642:39Society & Culture

Today's guest is Edie Littlefield Sundby , author of the memoir The Mission Walker , about becoming the first person to walk the full Camino Real of both Californias while living with stage four cancer. In Part 1, E...

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