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My husband is a snorer. A very, very loud snorer. We learned after our first Camino experience to book private rooms unless there is absolutely nothing available.
Having said that, I have been sleeping with a snorer for 40 years. The first 18 or so years it kept me awake. I tried all the tricks...
Thank you for the update! If there is a lot of rain in the forecast, you might want to trade in your too small poncho for an Altus poncho. I did this mid-Camino one year and it made all the difference in the world to be dry and comfortable. Buen Camino!
We have had to use a taxi on a few occasions (stolen phone, no place to sleep, trail closed due to fire, etc). As mentioned above, we simply asked someone at the albergue or a bar to help us and within 10 minutes were whisked off in an air-conditioned vehicle speeding past terrain that took us...
Hi Steve,
You came to the right place for feedback! I find this tool very useful for "planning." https://godesalco.com/plan/frances
For fun, I used your time constraints and came up with an itinerary that might work for you if you walk 20km - 30km per day and skip from Fromista to Leon. But...
I brought new "metaphorical baggage" on our second walk and happily left it behind on the trail (same as the first walk). All these years later, that baggage has never crept back on my back.
For walk number three I carried a lot of extra actual baggage on my back, two dresses for our son's...
I'm so excited for you - six days! It's worth repeating what many folks have already stated, you will have a much better sense of what you want to do once you are walking, and you may discover the last thing you want to do is be on a bus or train for any portion of the route.
A wonderful part...
I think this was after Villamayor de Monjardin in April 2015:
Approaching Villamayor de Monjardin (I have taken multiple photos of this scene over the years; one of my favorites on the CF).
The road seems a bit longer when it's wet and windy (purchased an Altus poncho in Santo Domingo the...
Slow down everyone. Take a nap along the trail; take a rest day as often as you can . . . . It is your Camino as well as everyone's Camino. What you will come to love is knowing that you shared a journey, and it was "our" Camino you shared.
The issue with simply walking slower is how much longer it takes and how different the trail conditions are when one is walking at night in the dark with a dead cell phone battery on a very steep downhill because one missed the turn for the less steep trail (I speak from experience :)).
As mentioned earlier, the Altus poncho is great! The shop in Santo Domingo only had a red one when I very happily replaced my traditional poncho (which was useless in the wind) during an especially stormy day. For our latest walk, I gave the red one, which made me feel just a little too red, to...
Lauren, thank you for posting your plan. I find it very inspiring!
You have mentioned multiple times that you are dreading the treadmill. One of the fun things I did during the Covid shut down was a "Camino in Place" on my treadmill. I watched this vlog by the Towning family while on the...
Yes, getting lost makes for some fun memories most of the time. We thought we were lost on day one, at a fork in the road, no arrow, in the fog and snow, dead phone battery (live and learn) . . . until the fog lifted, and we saw the two roads led to the same place a hundred yards in front of us.
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