Based on the excerpt below from "the prologue" of chaucer's the canterbury tales, what was the purpose of the pilgrim's trip?

it happened in that season that one day / in southwark, at the tabard, as i lay / ready to go on pilgrimage and start / for canterbury, most devoust at heart, / at night there came into that hostelry / some nine and twenty in a company / of sundry folk happening then to fall / in fellowship and they were pilgrims all / that towards canterbury meant to ride.

a. to stay at the tabard
b. to go on a pilgrimage
c. to meet twenty-nine people
d. to enjoy the spring season