Business owner's 500-mile hike was challenge, life-changing experience

Eleni Sokos hiked 500 miles of the Camino de Santiago trail in Spain.

  • By Grier Ferguson
  • | 6:00 a.m. January 11, 2019
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Lori Sax. Since completing a 500-mile hike, Eleni Sokos makes time to hike on the weekends about twice a month.
Lori Sax. Since completing a 500-mile hike, Eleni Sokos makes time to hike on the weekends about twice a month.
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EXECUTIVE: Eleni Sokos is chief executive socializer at Sokos Social. Her Lakewood Ranch company helps clients in the hospitality and tourism industries with brand building and digital marketing.

DIVERSION: Sokos hiked 500 miles of the Camino de Santiago trail in Spain during summer 2016. Now she regularly makes time to hike on the weekends in Sarasota and Manatee counties. Now 30, she was 28 during the hike. 

 

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