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On one of these penniless pilgrimages they took passage on a boat , and , when fare was demanded , artlessly offered to talk , instead of pay . But that short confrontation has choked off historic trading routes , religious pilgrimage and cultural interaction between the people across the mountain range developed over thousands of years . Kerouac thought of On the Road as a quest or pilgrimage wherein he , as the character Sal , gains a moment of vision on each journey . " Scripture itself , " she concludes , " provides paradigms of pilgrimage , of progress and setback , of faith and hope , rather than concepts , doctrines , or definitions . Pilgrimages began to be made to some of the site associated with the Old testament , such as Mount Sinai . The atmosphere in Fatima during the May and October pilgrimages , when 100,000 people gather here , is phenomenal . Annual pilgrimages to ritually hunt the sacred cactus are still a central part of tribal myth and ceremony . It was a veritable pilgrimage , a soultrying " move ” across a trackless continent , harassed the while by savages . The Hajj terminal is dedicated to process the pilgrims visiting Mecca for the Hajj and Umrah pilgrimages . The Church , however , because of the harmony between her teaching and the spiritual values inherent in pilgrimage , has not only regarded pilgrimage as a legitimate form of piety but has encouraged it throughout her history .