Lauren Achtemeier: Turner's Pilgrims on their Journey home

I found it interesting how Turner describes pilgrims on their home destination leaving their liminal state and returning more like tourists. On the way to their destination, the pilgrim was stopping at every shrine or station to give penance, but on the way back their attitude changes once they have reached their climatic experience. This switch from the liminal state back to a normal state while still in the environment seems strange, but plausible. This seems different from the Appalachian Trail, since people there seem to want to enjoy every moment of their experience. However, I suppose the difference is that people walking the entire trail usually start in one spot and then finish in another, instead of turning around and retracing their steps as Turner implied in his example. In Turner’s example, the road home is not the same but an ellipse, while the Appalachian Trail seems to be from point A to point B.