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  1. Lmsundaze

    Curiosity about age: white/ Grey hair?

    A few times on the Camino people asked my age, mostly young people. I didn't mind telling them, I think they were impressed that the Camino is something old people can still do. I remember, many years ago, my husband and I hiking up Mount LeCompte in Great Smoky Mountains National Park --...
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    Lightweight Wrap Skirt !

    I just looked at it, looks great! Can you share what size you got, or how the sizes are? Thanks!
  3. Lmsundaze

    Are mosquitos & other insects an issue?

    Walked Portugues last year, late Sept into Oct, no mosquitos
  4. Lmsundaze

    Do you have blue eyes? Meet your pilgrim cousins

    Oh no! I have brown eyes but my 3 siblings all have blue. Guess we aren't related!
  5. Lmsundaze

    Ladies...Yoga leggings or hiking pants?

    I have 2 skirts, 1 Macabi and one Purple Rain. For cold days, merino wool tights. That's it. I am more comfortable in a skirt.
  6. Lmsundaze

    Another way to see pack transport

    I love donkeys, although I won't be walking the Camino with one. One of my favorite Camino Books is Travels with My Donkey: One Man and His Ass on a Pilgrimage to Santiago by Tim Moore
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    Save the Bottom Bunks for the Elderly

    In Spanish they refer to "personas de la tercera edad." People who speak English and Spanish, do you think this has a better or worse connotation than "elderly" in English?
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    Pulpo, pulpo and more pulpo

    I think pulpo is delicious, but I feel bad about it after reading the book "the Soul of an Octopus." and learning how intelligent they are. For word nerds like me, the most correct plural is octopuses, since the word octopus comes from the greek and not the latin. That said, octopi is...
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    Bug bites

    I'm so sorry this happened to you. I was bitten also. I hope this isn't the wrong place for this, but I am very allergic to insect bites and carry some strong oral antihistamines "just in case."
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    Restaurant in Santiago

    Wow, they had wonderful food when I was there, every kind of seafood and also other things. We were with locals and it was one of the best meals I have had.
  11. Lmsundaze

    Restaurant in Santiago

    O Gato Negro!!!
  12. Lmsundaze

    Some fun but harmless stereotyping

    They forgot me. Gray haired old lady trudging along slowly.
  13. Lmsundaze

    Spanish speaker please

    Practically all my Spanish study has been in Mexico and the language certainly isn't called castellano there. There are differences but people in Spain can understanding me. (Me understanding rapid speech is another matter). I study at home with a professor from Valencia and she refers to the...
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    Camino with Roads Scholar

    I went to the Spanish Institute in Puebla, www.sipuebla.com. It is a wonderful school and great program. Puebla is a great city, lots of art, culture, music. You fill find almost no English spoken. I have done an other program in San Miguel de Allende, www.ahaspeakspanish.com, which is also...
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    Camino with Roads Scholar

    Wow I just looked at their site it is almost $5000 for single occupancy. That is a LOT! I just got back from 6 weeks of language school in Mexico, wonderful experience, about half that.
  16. Lmsundaze

    One For The Techies

    Not a techie. I brought my iphone 6S large size and had everything on it -- guide books, maps, kindle, phone whatever. All I needed.
  17. Lmsundaze

    Words, words, words. Which ones bug you and why?

    The song De Colores is part of the Cursillo movement -- an apostolic movement of renewal in the Roman Catholic Church which has spread to other denominations. Being "in colors" signifies to be in God's Grace.
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    Hike Similar to First Day of Camino Frances

    I love the hike up Mount LeConte. Once was charged by a bear at the top. My husband shouted at it and waved a stick and it ran away. An exciting memory.
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    Words, words, words. Which ones bug you and why?

    This is trivial but I cringe at "The El Camino."
  20. Lmsundaze

    Washing merino clothes!

    I did throw my icebreaker tops in the dryer after a bedbug exposure. One was 100% merino wool, the otherbwasb"tech- lite" (wool Blend). Both came out fine and I plan to wear them again this year. Sometimes it is necessary to put them in the dryer if there are bedbugs I. The albergue. One other...

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