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  1. JillGat

    New lightweight backpack from REI

    I wish I could get you (and others) to adopt my simple water bottle system. Make two loops of shock cord (the stretchy cord) and safety pin them in place on the front of the shoulder strap (the safety pin is just to keep them from sliding down.. not to take any weight). Get a bicycle water...
  2. JillGat

    Is 5 days in Finisterre a bad idea?

    I would suggest not booking five nights; book one night in Finnisterra and then decide when you get there (too many guys in tie dye parachute pants with dreadlocks for my taste)
  3. JillGat

    REI Sale

    The REI brand Sahara tee shirt is the most natural feeling synthetic (100% polyester) shirt I've had.
  4. JillGat

    The Shell Toucher hat

    Add a kilt or a macabe skirt and you'd have a Hundred Years of Solitude.
  5. JillGat

    Stomach Bug on Meseta

    Only anecdotal, but I remember a number of reports of gasto-illnesses after Conde de Carrion a couple years ago. Local people wouldn't necessarly get sick. With certain bugs, the intestinal bacterial flora can learn to accomodate or defend against them. Newly exposed would get sick, tho.
  6. JillGat

    Shampoo and Condition bars, scent preference

    I use orange essential oil for this. My favorite, too!
  7. JillGat

    New Camino Movie -The Way My Way - World Premiere

    Okay, this is wild. The day after I wrote that (above) I got a call from a casting director to be a background actor is a movie being filmed here, "The Lost Bus" with Matthew McConaughey. Not because I'm a super model, though... I will be a fire evacuee and they are looking for "plain/average...
  8. JillGat

    LIVE from the Camino Chrissy on the Camino Sanabrés

    Yep, they are an ill-advised import to Spain. I grew up as a child with them in California, where they were also an ill-advised import. I still love the smell and the memories it brings back to me.
  9. JillGat

    Shampoo and Condition bars, scent preference

    I do make unscented, too, sorry I forgot to add that. The scents are just a small amount of essential oil you smell while youre washing your hair, doesn't linger. i thought of eucalyptus when I was in Galicia. I agree, I HATE Perfumes! I got stuck sitting next to somebody on the plane - 9 hrs -...
  10. JillGat

    On the way to A Laxe

    I'm so glad you went to the trouble to find it! Cool, huh?
  11. JillGat

    Surprised at our test results poncho vs jacket

    So why did your pack get wet? I find with a rain jacket and a pack cover, I have no problem. Sorry if I'm being dense!
  12. JillGat

    On the way to A Laxe

    Here is an example I found of some Bronze age petroglyphs near Pontevedra, about 66K away. So what I'm saying is, not having known this, I must have a Keen Eye!
  13. JillGat

    Surprised at our test results poncho vs jacket

    I don't understand. Your jacket did it's job, but your pack was soaked? And you said you didn't have a pack cover (there's no such thing as a waterproof backpack, unless you put all the contents inside in waterproof bags.) How is that the jacket's fault?
  14. JillGat

    Any risk of walking without insoles?

    I found out from my podiatrist that the cause of my metatarsalgia was caused by my foot rolling inward because I have a high arch. He made orthotics for me that solved a problem that was disabling me after 20 k.
  15. JillGat

    Any risk of walking without insoles?

    Depends on how much padding the actual shoe has. That's more important than the insole.
  16. JillGat

    Shampoo and Condition bars, scent preference

    The poll is above.
  17. JillGat

    LIVE from the Camino Chrissy on the Camino Sanabrés

    The path with the large flat rocks is a Roman road! I kept exclaiming about this until a French guy said dismissively, "You and the Roman Roads!" I said, "Yeah, it is amazing to walk on something from so long ago!" He said, "Well, you Americans weren't COLONIZED by them." Like he was still...
  18. JillGat

    New Camino Movie -The Way My Way - World Premiere

    Yes, that's what Koreans I have met on the camino always tell me! I wonder if it's been translated into English.
  19. JillGat

    Shampoo and Condition bars, scent preference

    (Not sure where to put this post.) I make shampoo and conditioner bars and get requests for scents I don't have. I'd like to get an idea from camino walkers of which of the scents I make would be most popular. Vote for your favorite and add a post if there's a close second or a first choice...
  20. JillGat

    New Camino Movie -The Way My Way - World Premiere

    Why do most movies cast a female super-model as one of the primary characters? Doesn't matter if it's a police, doctor, detective, travel, drama, etc. film. There's always one and it kind of kills the reality of the story. (Meanwhile, I never get a call from the casting director!)

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