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