Itinerarium Ella...

Egeria or Aetheria (often called Sylvia) was a Gallaeci or Gallic woman who made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land about 381–384 A.D. She wrote an account of her journey in a long letter to a circle of women at home which survives in fragmentary form in a later copy. This may have been the first formal writing by a woman. Possibly a member of a religious order, Egeria made a leisurely pilgrimage to the Holy Land and wrote down her observations in a book called Itinerarium Egeriae, Peregrinatio Aetheriae, or the Travels, somewhere between the fourth and seventh centuries.
(Courtesy ;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egeria_%28pilgrim%2)

Later in 14th century,Geoffrey Chaucer wrote in Caterbury Tales:

For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so
Then people long on pilgrimage to go
And palmers to be seeking foreign strands
To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands. 

So here I am, in 21st century trying to jot down my teeny weeny experiences of my ten day pilgrimage to the Holy Land.While Egeria walked miles on her journey , eating only to maintain her strength and endurance, and trying to keep her blisters from festering, I went on my dream journey, eating as much as my appetite could afford, walking just a few miles, that too with my feet safe within walking shoes. Still, it was a pilgrimage for an ordinary person like me. I would like to write about it here,