Fantastic! Enjoyable! are only two of the words that come to mind in describing this amazing journey of father and son. I loved this book from cover to cover. Most of us tend to idolize and idealize actors and other artists and rarely get to share a very personal and intimate account of their lives. In this very candid recount of their personal lives, both Martin Sheen and his son Emilio Estevez give us a glimpse of how human they are and show us how they're not so different from the rest of us. Many aspects of their story resonated with me, as I thought about my own journey to find my personal roots in Spain. And while my sisters and I did not write a memoir of our experience, we could have written about our own trip to Spain in late 2010 to the ancestral home of my grandparents, not too far away from where Mr. Sheen's and Mr. Estevez' ancestors came from. Our experiences were very similar to the ones they had once they got there, meeting family that was foreign to them in every sense of the word, but that somehow one realizes how close they seem when realization hits they are your own blood, even though their lives have not paralleled yours. Blood has a very funny way of connecting you to people that you haven't met or perhaps seen in decades, as was our case and we too enjoyed the hospitality, warmth and love of people that received us in their homes with open arms and a great deal of love, just because we were blood relatives.I also saw the film, The Way, written and directed by Emilio Estevez and acted by Martin Sheen, and loved it as well, so it was easy to relate to it as it mentions it in this memoir. During my own stay in Leon, Spain, (also in Northwestern Spain, close to the French border) where part of "El Camino" passes through, we saw many of the hundreds of pilgrims that traverse the way, every single day that we were visiting. It was a great feeling and satisfaction to see all the people that have committed to making the long journey to Santiago de Compostela, and immediately felt connected to them. This is a very poignant story that takes the reader through the triumphs and failures we all experience in our lives as parents, sons and daughters and I looked at Mr. Sheen and Mr. Estevez with a great deal of pride and respect for telling us what their lives had been like, growing up and learning from one another. Although I am not a young person anymore, it was a first and a discovery to me recently that I had actually learned from my children, just as much as they had learned from me. It gave me a new perspective of how they really feel and how they really see me, beyond being their mother; how they saw me as a person, a human being, someone who came from a different culture and spoke a different language - and in this book, it is clear to see that Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez went through some of the same "awakening".I recommend this book because I found it very inspirational, poinant, candid and easy to read and understand the strengths and weaknesses of the protagonists and the ways in which each coped with the peaks and valleys in their lives. A most enjoyable read.