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    Unexpectedly feminist pilgrimage

    Yep! I get that. I got tired of being angry about it, so I left. If it hadn’t been affecting my coworkers so much too, it probably wouldn’t have bothered me as much 🤷🏻‍♀️ (That applies to the Camino comments too. Don’t actually mind that they were being said to me, but ffs don’t say them to the...
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    Unexpectedly feminist pilgrimage

    Pretty much everyone’s first question when I told them I was walking the Camino in the fall was a version of, “are you doing it with someone?” This was almost immediately followed by a pause where they were clearly trying to decide how to ask if walking 500 miles as a solo female traveler was...
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    Stamps- missing a few days

    I think, like many things, the people who very intensely care about making 100% sure that nothing goes wrong will be extra careful and get the exact appropriate number of stamps. As someone who is not one of those people, I appreciated the input people gave on the odds I would be able to...
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    Stamps- missing a few days

    Update: the lovely woman looked at my credential for under a minute before congratulating me and handing me my Compostela and distance certificate. Alls well that ends well as Ma Ingles used to say!
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    Stamps- missing a few days

    Thanks! We’ll see if I get my compostela despite my many transgressions 😈 Mostly though, the credential with all its stamps is good enough for me. I’m not Christian and I’m pretty sure my deity doesn’t really care too much about the paper. I just want it because I think it’s a cool souvenir...
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    LIVE from the Camino Struggling with doubt on the Camino Frances

    I have arrived!!! Day 39, and I walked into Santiago de Compostela today with some powerful winds and impressive sheets of rain! I cried walking down the hill into the city, and again walking out of the tunnel and seeing the cathedral. Thank you to everyone who helped lift me up a month ago...
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    Stamps- missing a few days

    Glad to have created such a lengthy discussion lol. I am thinking: “Huh some people are taking this very personally.” Secondary to this, I am laughing a bit because IMMEDIATELY after posting this and getting the initial responses confirming what I suspected, the next day I forgot to get two...
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    Wearing glasses when it rains

    On a more helpful note, it’s rained the last two days of my Camino, and I’ve just worn the basic ball cap that kept the sun out of my eyes in the beginning. It does a decent job of keeping my glasses dry too, although they still fog a bit when I walk into bars along the way. It does get wet but...
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    Boots?

    I do need to add a slight amendment to my earlier reply about Tevas: I did very much eat shit today on one of those paved downhills that become small streams when it rains. Was it just hubris? Could it have been avoided in boots or sneakers? We will never know. I’m fine though and I walked...
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    Stamps- missing a few days

    Hello!! I started in SJPP on September 20th (34 days ago), and I passed through Sarria today so this is a two parter: 1) I’m missing some days of stamps from when I stayed in donativos without stamps or for whatever other reason. 9/21, 10/1, and 10/4. Is this going to be an issue? 2) I’m...
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    Wearing glasses when it rains

    My mom has a similar hat! I found it really embarrassing in high school, now I think it’s kinda genius.
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    Boots?

    I started out of SJPP in trail runners and ended up buying a pair of Tevas (eta: hiking sandals) in Pamplona. I’ve walked the last 500km in them, and plan to continue to Finisterre without switching back. I wear them with Darn Tough socks, and my feet are plenty warm EXCEPT on the days when the...
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    LIVE from the Camino Struggling with doubt on the Camino Frances

    Update time! It is the morning of Day 32 and I am leaving Cacabelos. Probably 9-11 more days until Santiago! I did almost lose my shit yesterday. The day before had POURED (miserable) and it was pretty cold and rainy yesterday morning. I left my albergue and said a very long string of choice...
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    LIVE from the Camino Struggling with doubt on the Camino Frances

    It’s how I relax too! I only listen to audiobooks when I’m doing something tedious at work or walking 500 miles across Spain. Some of my friends have talked a lot about this book!! Maybe that can be next!
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    LIVE from the Camino Struggling with doubt on the Camino Frances

    Oh definitely! Mostly it’s that I’m shooting for 20-25 km days with at least one more rest day before the end. That plan would just so happen to land me somewhere around 40-43 days total, so we’ll see how things go!
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